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> In practice, governments will probably just MITM the connection If they routinely MITM connections they will quickly be found out, and the CA would be remove

> In practice, governments will probably just MITM the connection If they routinely MITM connections they will quickly be found out, and the CA would be removed from browsers.

mfjordvald 9y ago
Except China has their own browser made by a state controlled company that a lot of people use. This browser is already demonstrated to accept the government CA and ordinary people in China don't care.
- thriftwy 9y ago
  If some websites will break down in this browser while working in other browsers, people will probably notice.
  - Spoom 9y ago
    Why would they break? If the MITM certificate is trusted at the local level, everything should work fine in their browsers.
    - thriftwy 9y ago
      Except some pages won't be there (that's what censorship is isn't it?)
- smcl 9y ago
  What's the browser, or do you mean Opera?
  - mfjordvald 9y ago
    360 Secure Browser by Qihoo, we saw back in 2014 that it was already compromised then: https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-apple-icloud-data-attack-coincides-launch-new-iphone https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-appl...