• Pennomi@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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    2 years ago

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

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      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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        Sure, if we’re talking about code vulnerabilities only. It’s most likely a compromised root cert though.