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This is so bad. I'm from India and at my parents place we have the government run internet provider. They MITM and inject advertisements all the time showing an
by break_the_bank 7y ago
This is so bad. I'm from India and at my parents place we have the government run internet provider. They MITM and inject advertisements all the time showing annoying popups whenever you open an http link. I don't know how this is legal even.
- mkagenius 7y ago> I don't know how this is legal even. Legality is secondary when you are punching up in a 3rd world country. (I am from India)
- droithomme 7y agoI'm in the US and I've caught my ISP doing MITM exploits over http (not https... so far). It's global and regular folks have absolutely no chance of knowing what is going on. Needs to be criminalized for any hope of resolution.
- _jomo 7y agoComcast has even published an informational RFC describing how to inject crap into HTTP requests: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108
- butterNaN 7y ago1. Please stop self-generalizing. This only leads to hopelessness, which is unwarrented since there's a huge amount of Internet-related activism in India, even more than the Western countries. 2. Plese stop using the label "Third-world". You are your own "first-world". There's better labels to describe yourself, namely "developing".
- tashoecraft 7y agoWell third world just means the country did not align with the US or USSR during the cold war. Though the concept has kinda changed meaning lately.
- dahfizz 7y ago> government run > how this is legal even. The government writes and enforces the laws. They'll never self incriminate.
- human 7y agoThis is a false assumption. Governments (executive branch) can be prosecuted for illegal behavior.
- kszxgz 7y agoYour statement only applies to the subset of countries where there is judicial independence.
- gholap 7y agoWhich is true in case of India
- mk_chan 7y agoOn paper
- gingabriska 7y agoThe present judiciary in India lacks spine, on one hand they say privacy is fundamental right on other hand they drag their feet to stop the project aadhaar which required collecting biometric dataset on whole population. And their defense claims US has SSN which is equivalent of Aadhaar why anyone can see ludicrous And still Aadhar requirement is not removed for filing income tax return (which results in massive penalities)
- plibither8 7y agoWhich provider is this? MTNL or BSNL?
- benbristow 7y agoUse a VPN and they won't be able to MITM or inject advertisements.