Original e-mail from Apple security team:

> Follow-up:  187806281
> 
> SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 are vulnerable to an attack described at
> 
> http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt
> 
> OpenSSL includes a countermeasure which prevents the attack, but python
> 2.7 has, around line 372 of Modules/_ssl.c:
> 
> SSL_CTX_set_options(self->ctx, SSL_OP_ALL);
> 
> SSL_OP_ALL includes SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS which disables the 
> countermeasure.
> 
> 2.6 is similar.