The NSA and CIA use ad blockers

Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by zaphar on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:15PM (#28632114)

To be fair though, being able to MITM the DNS is kind of a massive security hole. One you are abusing in a productive way but one that many others abuse in very non-productive ways.

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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by gnu8 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:50PM (#28632606)

I don’t think that is fair at all. It is architecturally appropriate for every site to run DNS resolvers and most of them do outside of the residential space. This isn’t a man in the middle attack and selectively blocking queries according to local preferences doesn’t make it one.

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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by zaphar on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:10PM (#28632862)

When my ISP decides to replace DNS traffic I call it a MiTM. I happen to be technical enough to fix it. Many of my friends are not.

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