US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by metadat on Thursday February 19, 2026 @08:44PM (#47082627)

And how useful would this information be? srcIP:port_dstIP:port pairs with almost all traffic encrypted. Pretty boring from a sigint pov.

Instagram, YouTube, misc Web traffic, and torrents, with a side of minutae.

I'm certain the three letter agencies yearn for the days before letsencrypt was de facto.

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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by rtkwe on Thursday February 19, 2026 @11:37PM (#47083812)

There is the small possibility that the NSA has found cracks in some of the popular cyphers and could actually make sense of the encrypted data. It's not completely out of the question, their cryptanalysis has been shown to be ahead of the public best efforts in the past. They demonstrated it back in the 70s with DES S-boxes hardening them against a technique no one publicly knew about until the 80s.

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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by GoblinSlayer on Friday February 20, 2026 @12:31PM (#47091014)

What the point if they can have decrypted data from cloudflare?

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