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That might be very new information, but there are 195 countries in the world (194 apart from yours!) with plenty of them forcing internet censorship or gov espi
by dmantis 4y ago
That might be very new information, but there are 195 countries in the world (194 apart from yours!) with plenty of them forcing internet censorship or gov espionage.
I'm kinda happy that the worst scenario in yours are internet ads, but you can't say that if your country don't force providers to inject fake pages for selective pages, there is not need to protect traffic for the whole world.
And no, you can't switch ISP in the case if the hacking comes from gov censorship agencies.
- otabdeveloper4 4y agoYou must be a theoretician, because people who actually have to deal with censorship know that government entities mandate certificate MITM or block domains whole-sale. So https does nothing for censorship unless you're worried about the absolutely unrealistic case of a government entity running search-and-replace on your webpage content at the ISP level. (Unrealistic because they can just send a legal order to whoever is hosting this content instead.)
- dmantis 4y agoI'm a holder of Russian passport, so no, I'm not a theoretician. 1) They block the whole-domain only in case of https which reminds you to turn-on the VPN. In case of http you could just have something like 404 response for particular page and you would never know that it's actually not 404, but ISP block (depends on ISP and DPI). So still https is preferable to be able to distinguish between two types of blocks. 2) They don't do "replace" in general, true, but for opposition resources they might be creative. 3) Most of hosters and content providers (if they don't have legal presence in Ru) don't care about legal orders from Russia (as well as from other third-world dictatorship regimes) until it's some real valid stuff to complain about.