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> > In fact, this specific thing is what TLS is designed to prevent, and new implementations of the protocol are only going to get better at preventing it.

> This isn't true. The TLS protocol is not a philosophy; [...]

Well, the TLS specification [1] says as the first sentence of the introduction:

"The primary goal of the TLS protocol is to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications."

I think, if something is "the primary design objective of TLS", it can be said that TLS is designed to do it.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246#section-1