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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by TorKlingberg on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @04:04AM (#14443633)
> In practice, governments will probably just MITM the connection

If they routinely MITM connections they will quickly be found out, and the CA would be removed from browsers.

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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by mfjordvald on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @08:48AM (#14444891)
Except China has their own browser made by a state controlled company that a lot of people use. This browser is already demonstrated to accept the government CA and ordinary people in China don't care.
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by smcl on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:59AM (#14446228)
What's the browser, or do you mean Opera?
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by mfjordvald on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @01:04PM (#14446734)
360 Secure Browser by Qihoo, we saw back in 2014 that it was already compromised then: https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-appl...
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by thriftwy on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @09:39AM (#14445254)
If some websites will break down in this browser while working in other browsers, people will probably notice.
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by Spoom on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:30AM (#14446024)
Why would they break? If the MITM certificate is trusted at the local level, everything should work fine in their browsers.
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by thriftwy on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:45AM (#14446117)
Except some pages won't be there (that's what censorship is isn't it?)
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