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In general none of the disclosures of what GFW is doing g should be seen as evidence that western governments do not do the same thing. Hope nobody is drawing t

In general none of the disclosures of what GFW is doing g should be seen as evidence that western governments do not do the same thing. Hope nobody is drawing that conclusion.

bjt 1y ago
Western governments do not routinely block VPNs.
- hulitu 1y ago
  Different phylosophy: why block VPNs when you can monitor them. Most Root CAs are in US.
  - immibis 1y ago
    Certificate transparency is mandatory in browsers; interception certificates appear in certificate logs to be accepted. Have you found one? Edit: OCSP has been ended.
    - edgineer 1y ago
      He might be referring to OCSP. Browsers ping CAs by default, revealing to them the sites that are visited.
      - arcfour 1y ago
        OCSP is very much on the way out, this is hardly true anymore; although some things still check OCSP, many things do not.
- bigyabai 1y ago
  Western governments effectively control 99% of consumer technology, and hack whatever else they can't have. VPNs are a false sense of security going up against a nation-sized adversary like the US.
  - throwaway48476 1y ago
    They also can correlate packet streams in and out of the tor network.