• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They also have backdoors in most implementations of TLS, according to a person I know who worked government security.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      It wouldn’t be impossible. There are like so many different certificate issuers, any one of them collaborating with a government would allow them to create a certificate that would be accepted by your browser.

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      2 months ago

      Still takes more work than just giving them that information.