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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _connect_secureish(*args, **kwargs):
 """Connect using the safest available options. This turns on encryption (works in all supported boto versions) and certificate validation (in the subset of supported boto versions that can handle certificate validation, namely, those after 2.6.0). Versions below 2.6 don't support the validate_certs option to S3Connection, and enable it via configuration option just seems to cause an error. """

    if tuple(int(x) for x in boto.__version__.split('.')) >= (2, 6, 0):
        kwargs['validate_certs'] = True

    kwargs['is_secure'] = True

    auth_region_name = kwargs.pop('auth_region_name', None)
    conn = connection.S3Connection(*args, **kwargs)

    if auth_region_name:
        conn.auth_region_name = auth_region_name

    return conn