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Do you recall the days when it was common practice for ISPs to MITM all traffic? The most obvious and profitable use case were those ISPs who returned 404 page
by cj 4y ago
Do you recall the days when it was common practice for ISPs to MITM all traffic?
The most obvious and profitable use case were those ISPs who returned 404 pages riddled with advertisements for domains that were unregistered (e.g. if you mistyped a URL)
Certain ISPs even injected JavaScript into every page.
“I” in the OP’s comment probably means “government” or “ISP” rather than a friendly roommate on the same wifi network.
- BrandoElFollito 4y ago> Do you recall the days when it was common practice for ISPs to MITM all traffic? This never existed in France. That would have been completely illegal.
- retrocryptid 4y agoThere was a time when this existed in France and was not illegal. I believe that's why the OP was saying "Do you recall the days when..."
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoWhen was it, and with which ISP?
- mmh0000 4y agoNot op, but see this https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/foci11/tech/final_files/Weaver.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/foci11/tech/final_files/... France isn’t listed, but Germany, Netherlands, United States (obviously) are. This was a thing that used to commonly happen before TLS became standard.
- Workaccount2 4y agoBold of you to assume lawmakers would be ahead of hackers on the technology front.