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Re:Keep the Internet Open by gergles on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:51PM (#13872959)
In the near future: "To provide optimum security and privacy for your internet browsing, you must now install our Comcastic™ Special Magic Certificate®. Failure to install our certificate will result in browsing being restricted. If you don't like it, go to a competitor."
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Re:Keep the Internet Open by nickpsecurity on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:13AM (#13873759)
That's very possible. It's probably better you dont even say it publicly to avoid given them the idea. Only a few companies have to implement it for it to become a national problem.
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Re:Keep the Internet Open by logfromblammo on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:11PM (#13878370)
That cat is already out of the bag. Companies already sell MitM services to companies that want to monitor and filter the web traffic of their employees.

I suspect there are already niche ISPs out there that cater to the content-blocking impulses of certain customers by doing deep-packet inspection and firewalling at the gateway.

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