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Re:Whistleblower provides blocking orders for over 4000 webs... by dehrmann on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:29PM (#23662764)
If a government has a great firewall installs its own root certificate on locally sold devices, it can pull all sorts of shenanigans.
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Re:Whistleblower provides blocking orders for over 4000 webs... by rmrfstar on Saturday June 27, 2020 @01:19PM (#23663084)
Check out the CAs your browser trusts. It's a tire fire. People should be a lot more worried about corporate shenanigans than government.

One of the more interesting things you can do with a network tap is take a look at the certificates crossing the wire. Suricata has a tls-log section.

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Re:Whistleblower provides blocking orders for over 4000 webs... by CyberDildonics on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:51PM (#23662912)
Are there known cases of this being done?
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Re:Whistleblower provides blocking orders for over 4000 webs... by dehrmann on Saturday June 27, 2020 @02:58PM (#23663833)
Lenovo, maybe: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenov...
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Re:Whistleblower provides blocking orders for over 4000 webs... by ThePowerOfFuet on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:57PM (#23662953)
Kazakhstan.
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Re:Whistleblower provides blocking orders for over 4000 webs... by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Saturday June 27, 2020 @01:04PM (#23663002)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-now-i...
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