0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Eobard 13 Jan \ on: The EU Wants to Spy on Europeans’ Internet Use ⋆ Brownstone Institute security
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This is the neat part: they can't.
This regulation only affects the uninformed and the obedient, being either of which is optional.
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Oh they absolutely can.
ISPs will simply inject cloudflare-like "checking your browser for security" pages that verify the backdoor-edness of your browser. No backdoor, no Internet connection. Yes, you can try to detect the security-check page and enable the cert only for that, but it'll be a cat-and-mouse game and your browser will be broken half the time while you're playing it. Not something many people will do.
"He who controls the dark fiber, controls the universe!"
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I'm sure there would be a group of devs happy to volunteer to play that cat and mouse game by releasing updates to automate this. The repo might have to move out of GitHub.
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