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Re:Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU by bbarnett on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:00PM (#34636606)
because my browser doesn't try to connect to your malicious server

Unless a router is compromised along the route, which is a known thing, and part of why we use ssl everywhere now.

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Re:Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU by kragen on Friday February 03, 2023 @08:03AM (#34640493)
the paragraph immediately following the one you quoted from explains that, and did so nine hours before your comment

the grandparent comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34629050 also describes some more common ways that this can happen without routers being compromised

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Re:Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU by bbarnett on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:27AM (#34642290)
Noted.
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