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How's the CSU authoritarian? That's like throwing expletives around; you might as well call them Nazis and get it over with.
It's not. Modern CDU/CSU are basically where the social democrats were about ten years ago.
New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans
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#192Why on earth would somebody think this is an appropriate name for a company involved with assisting government surveillance.
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Browsers blacklisted Kazakhstan government certificate used for MITM which was not even trusted. It is absurd to expect anything less than blacklisting such a CA immediately. Certificate transparency is required for all certificates since April, 2018, so you can't really issue rogue certificate.
Here's the Bugzilla report where they actually request their root be added to Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232689 The answer is basically "no".
I don't think that they would use that certificate for MITM. They're not fools and they understand that it would lead to blacklisting it which would halt a lot of operations in the country.
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#194Does that imply that the German intelligence service has the crypto keys for Windows Update? Otherwise modified Microsoft updates won't work.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
How's the CSU authoritarian? That's like throwing expletives around; you might as well call them Nazis and get it over with.
It's not. Modern CDU/CSU are basically where the social democrats were about ten years ago.
Yet more proof that "Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit". And the speed limit seems to be rather generous in this case. But for some it's never high enough, they'd pull down all of Chesterton's fences at the merest whim.
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#196Re: New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans
#197To not even be sure whether a website you visit, or a file you download is actually what its creator says it is, is like picking up an orange but the government secretly replaces it with an apple that contains almost no vitamin C in it at all. You have the right to seek out and eat an orange for your immune system and survival, and no government should have the right to interfere with that, at any time. This law is a…
> Whoever proposed it should be ashamed of themselves. Our current government doesn't even know what that means. This is why a VPN is indeed helpful, because now ISP are the primary attack vector.
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> Whoever proposed it should be ashamed of themselves Name and shame: Interior Minister Horst Seehofer of the conservative-authoritarian CSU. He and his party friends are who want this. We have the chance to kick them out of office in 2021, it's time for the stranglehold of Conservative internet-printers (Internetausdrucker, a German word for tech illiterates) as Interior Ministers to end once and for all .
> Conservative internet-printers By association Otto Schily wasn't a conservative and yet...
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> Whoever proposed it should be ashamed of themselves. Our current government doesn't even know what that means. This is why a VPN is indeed helpful, because now ISP are the primary attack vector.
So the next step will be for the governments to use VPN as the primary vector of attack
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Whoever proposed it should be ashamed of themselves Name and shame: Interior Minister Horst Seehofer of the conservative-authoritarian CSU. He and his party friends are who want this. We have the chance to kick them out of office in 2021, it's time for the stranglehold of Conservative internet-printers (Internetausdrucker, a German word for tech illiterates) as Interior Ministers to end once and for all .
How's the CSU authoritarian? That's like throwing expletives around; you might as well call them Nazis and get it over with.
As for calling them Nazis... well, when one looks at the events regarding former Verfassungsschutz chef Maaßen, instituted by HP Friedrich and protected by successor Seehofer until it was no longer tenable, who is accused of having protected the AfD during his term: it's not that far to at least imply ideological support or tolerance toward far right political positions.