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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by Warp__ on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:23AM (#13036222)
Gov't can easily MITM HTTPS connections.
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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by redcalx on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:05AM (#13036432)
True. Anyone know if this new IP law allows the gov to do this? I.e. if they tried to prosecute and it came to light that the logs were obtained using a MITM attack, would the evidence be nullified?
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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by tehmaco on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:26AM (#13036898)
It would probably come under the "Equipment Interference" section, which legalises hacking of devices.
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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by Warp__ on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:17AM (#13036499)
I don't know.

I imagine that MITM on a large scale is par for the course for GCHQ.

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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by redcalx on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:37AM (#13036967)
Sure, but can data obtained by that be used in a court of law. I /think/ those are two different things (but not sure).
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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by martin-adams on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:34AM (#13036270)
I did not know this. How do they do that?
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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by Warp__ on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:37AM (#13036284)
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/143387/is-there-...

That's pretty clear. It does depend of what level/technology is used in the Encryption, but broadly, against nation state actors with full virtual and physical hardware access, you are to put it bluntly, stuffed.

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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by herge on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:23AM (#13036887)
To anyone reading this, the link says: "It is unclear whether such rules would apply to companies which don't operate directly in the UK", so it is literally not pretty clear.
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Re:How can I protect myself from government snoopers? by Warp__ on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:54AM (#13037083)
The _legality_ isn't clear. The technical methodology is quite clear.
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