diff --git a/Dalamud/DiscordBot/DiscordBotManager.cs b/Dalamud/DiscordBot/DiscordBotManager.cs
index 10b56663c..bec1fb0b6 100644
--- a/Dalamud/DiscordBot/DiscordBotManager.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/DiscordBot/DiscordBotManager.cs
@@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ namespace Dalamud.DiscordBot {
             var parsedSender = SeString.Parse(sender.RawData);
             var playerLink = parsedSender.Payloads.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Type == PayloadType.Player) as PlayerPayload;
 
-            var senderName = string.Empty;
-            var senderWorld = string.Empty;
+            string senderName;
+            string senderWorld;
 
             if (playerLink == null) {
                 Log.Error("playerLink was null. Sender: {0}", BitConverter.ToString(sender.RawData));
diff --git a/Dalamud/EntryPoint.cs b/Dalamud/EntryPoint.cs
index 232640f5e..417fa1255 100644
--- a/Dalamud/EntryPoint.cs
+++ b/Dalamud/EntryPoint.cs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ namespace Dalamud {
 
                 // This is due to GitHub not supporting TLS 1.0, so we enable all TLS versions globally
                 System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol =
-                    SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls;
+                    SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls | SecurityProtocolType.Ssl3;
 
                 // Log any unhandled exception.
                 AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += OnUnhandledException;