Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
by ryanlol on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:04PM
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It would not be unreasonable to assume that the FSB (or perhaps rather the SVR?) has compromised a CA that's included in all the builds.
Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
by nothrabannosir on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:22AM
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It would. That's what certificate pinning is for. If they did that and (ab)used it, they'd be found out in no time.
This whole conversation is just not going anywhere. The Russian government can't snoop your tls data if it leaves the country, end of story. That's the reason for this law and the article to begin with!
Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
by ryanlol on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:36AM
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As if, someone with such access would probably know better than to burn it by indiscriminately using it against connections with pinned certs.
You aren't claiming that they couldn't compromise a CA, are you? That's pretty much the only thing that would make such an assumption unreasonable.
Re:LinkedIn is now officially blocked in Russia
by nothrabannosir on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:52AM
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Edit: I'll just stop here. Suffice to say we should talk this over another time, not in hacker news comments :)
Russian citizens download and install specially crafted builds instead of the officials ones? Are they forced, or do they they trust those FSB builds more?
> The traffic will stay inside of infrastructure controlled by the Russian government through its domestic ISPs, rather than exiting the country.
I guess we are not talking about the same, because the the regulation doesn't dictate this. It "just" says, that there has to be a copy of the data in Russia. The server can still be outside of Russia.