Comment on How feasible would it be for authoritarian regimes to add censorship directly into the hardware of modern consumer electronics? (Therefore making the use of VPNs to bypass censorship useless.)

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That hasn’t stopped them from making idiotic laws before, look at all the US states that are trying to ban porn on the internet.

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sure, there’s been talk of banning encryption as well, but practically speaking, that would be an unmitigated disaster in terms of security alone.

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    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Of course it would but politicians are famously stupid, they have no idea and little care if something is actually feasible.

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• biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If your browser and device has a state sponsored CA certificate it’s not trivial to bypass. Transparently all certificate traffic could be intercepted by an ISP. Look at Europe already trying. Once someone malicious (to you) is a trusted certificate issuer you no longer can verify either the destination nor the privacy of the content.

  Ssl based vpns are also decrypted. And vpns which use public key for identification would no longer be trusted.

  …com.au/…/eu-row-over-certificate-authority-manda…

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If anything like this becomes widespread, you can bet people will figure out all sorts of ways around it and if it becomes problematic enough, they’ll probably just stop using it.

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