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Re:Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, ... by cj on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:20AM (#33261043)
Do you recall the days when it was common practice for ISPs to MITM all traffic?

The most obvious and profitable use case were those ISPs who returned 404 pages riddled with advertisements for domains that were unregistered (e.g. if you mistyped a URL)

Certain ISPs even injected JavaScript into every page.

“I” in the OP’s comment probably means “government” or “ISP” rather than a friendly roommate on the same wifi network.

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Re:Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, ... by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:42AM (#33261272)
> Do you recall the days when it was common practice for ISPs to MITM all traffic?

This never existed in France. That would have been completely illegal.

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Re:Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, ... by retrocryptid on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:51AM (#33261380)
There was a time when this existed in France and was not illegal. I believe that's why the OP was saying "Do you recall the days when..."
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Re:Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, ... by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:13AM (#33261642)
When was it, and with which ISP?
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Re:Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, ... by mmh0000 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:40AM (#33261979)
Not op, but see this

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/foci11/tech/final_files/...

France isn’t listed, but Germany, Netherlands, United States (obviously) are. This was a thing that used to commonly happen before TLS became standard.

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Re:Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, ... by Workaccount2 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:01AM (#33262280)
Bold of you to assume lawmakers would be ahead of hackers on the technology front.
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