▲ 360 ▼ New US Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs (www.cnet.com) submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev 58 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 year ago (4 children) Wait until they find out that HTTPS traffic is encrypted permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (2 children) Don't be naive and think they can't block this stuff because of encryption. They just go after the business entities. Eventually you'll only be left with super sketchy options that they'll try to block by IP. They probably won't totally succeed, but they can make things far shitter than they are. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) They can just make it a legal requirement to allow MITM, like Kazakhstan tried doing back in 2015. If every ISP requires you to have this cert installed before you can go online, you don't have many options. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago The last thing the rich want is to slow their internet access down to Kazakhstan levels at their businesses permalink fedilink source parent [–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago A middlebox can't see the actual content but they know what sites you are visiting and how often if you are only using HTTPS - meaning they can also block you from accessing sites of their choosing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (2 children) Don't be naive and think they can't block this stuff because of encryption. They just go after the business entities. Eventually you'll only be left with super sketchy options that they'll try to block by IP. They probably won't totally succeed, but they can make things far shitter than they are. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) They can just make it a legal requirement to allow MITM, like Kazakhstan tried doing back in 2015. If every ISP requires you to have this cert installed before you can go online, you don't have many options. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago The last thing the rich want is to slow their internet access down to Kazakhstan levels at their businesses permalink fedilink source parent
[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) They can just make it a legal requirement to allow MITM, like Kazakhstan tried doing back in 2015. If every ISP requires you to have this cert installed before you can go online, you don't have many options. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago The last thing the rich want is to slow their internet access down to Kazakhstan levels at their businesses permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago The last thing the rich want is to slow their internet access down to Kazakhstan levels at their businesses permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago A middlebox can't see the actual content but they know what sites you are visiting and how often if you are only using HTTPS - meaning they can also block you from accessing sites of their choosing permalink fedilink source parent