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I was considering visiting Kazakhstan until they announced that all Internet users would have to accept a government self-signed certificate authority to use th
by rocky1138 9y ago
I was considering visiting Kazakhstan until they announced that all Internet users would have to accept a government self-signed certificate authority to use the network.
- vbezhenar 9y agoThat's wrong, you don't need that. But some websites, notably including most popular porn sites are banned.
- Devid2014 9y agoAFAIK you require to use it by the law. If you have other information please point to the source, it would be nice to know it for sure.
- vbezhenar 9y agoI'm from Kazakhstan and I've opened https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com using Kazaktelecom (largest internet provider) without installing any root certificates right now. I can't answer for other operators, but mobile operators don't MitM either.
- rocky1138 9y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663843
- kukabynd 9y agoI understand why’d you think that it did/does really happen but in the reality, it doesn’t. As most of other political activity in Kazakhstan, words often get lost and don’t lead to any actions. That’s the case with MitM page that was published by the biggest provider in the country. It never actualized and I bet it won’t as the backlash from the worldwide community makes the country look bad. Leaders simply don’t want that, nobody does actually. So, please, give it another consideration.