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waz0wski • yesterday at 6:45 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

India has state-mandated spying on network traffic (69B & Telecom Act 2023) so as dumb as this looks, it's possible this could've been purposeful


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tptacek • yesterday at 6:50 PM

This is a really, really dumb way of doing online spying (presumably, you mean by running a program of deliberate misissuance) since every cert they issue is recorded in a public cryptographic ledger.

I'm not saying this will never happen, just that rolling out a dramatic infrastructure change for "data sovereignty" just to pull off a SIGINT heist that is almost certain to get your CA distrusted seems like a poor risk/reward calculation. I fully expect IC agencies to get some CAs killed and be fine with that.

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