Re:U.S. Gov Seizes BitTorrent search site (torrent-finder) –...
by dangrossman on Friday November 26, 2010 @10:38PM
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Would non-EV SSL do anything here? Once you have control over DNS for a domain, you own its mailboxes and can buy SSL certificates validated against that domain. So whether you're connecting to the original site or the new server some government pointed it to, you're getting a valid SSL certificate for that domain.
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Re:U.S. Gov Seizes BitTorrent search site (torrent-finder) –...
by jrockway on Saturday November 27, 2010 @01:52PM
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Yes, but the precedent will be interesting. SSL will become useless and a new decentralized trust system will have to be developed in its place. This will make the Internet even more resistant to censorship and tampering (much like how encrypted Bittorrent stopped greedy or "well-meaning" ISPs from censoring your Linux DVD distribution).