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In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: Kazakhstan passed a law that would require citizens to install a certificate on their personal computers and mobile devices that would allow the government to snoop and capture web traffic, passwords, financial details. Telecom.kz posted the news to their website on November 30, but by December 4 the press release had been removed from the website. This is just the latest example of government overreaching. Recently we've seen the Turkish government attempt to block access to social media sites. And let's not forget Thailand's attempt to roll out their own man-in-the-middle implementation.
Well, then it's a good fucking thing nobody said Russia.
Also it was part of the former Soviet Union, so....
I bet that there, the government has the legal authority to do this, so what's the big deal? Here we have that pesky thing called the constitution, and the government still does the same even though they knew it was sketchy at best, but probably illegal.
Peter.
look on in envy ...
I visited the ISP's web site to try to see exactly what is supposed to be loaded onto a machine, but I don't read their language.
A moose bit my sister once ... it was very painful.
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...but if I were a competent intelligence agency, I'd buddy up with a CA that has its root in all the major browsers, and MITM by redirecting traffic to my servers, once I'd obtained a warrant from a judge for targetted surveillance. IOW, I'd take a reasonable interpretation of the US Constitution's 4th amendment.
If, OTOH, I just wanted to spy on all my citizens, perhaps collecting data to make sure everyone can be identified as a criminal in future if needed, I'd do as described in the article. IOW, I'd be the Kazakhstan government.
if I were extremely incompetent, OTOH, I'd do something like only outlawing end to end encryption, and design some magic wand to enable myself access to all servers on the Internet across the planet. IOW, I'd be the UK government.
How would the government enforce this? "Uh, oh yeah, I installed your certificate, wink wink."
that's not a man, baby. "Tranny in the middle" attack is more like it.
I am aware that Putin does not know his borders, but Kazakhstan is not Russia.
He knows his borders. Just in his mind if you are a former Soviet state then you are (or should be) actually part of Russia. He's kind of like China, in that the borders they think they have don't really line up with the maps everyone else is using.
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Typewriter sales took off as the last bastion of privacy left.
Kazhakstan has loads of advertisements on CNN trying to persuade businesses to locate there. Good way to screw that one up.
Yakov Smirnoff started this genre of jokes back in the 60s. At the time, Russia was usually conflated w/ the Soviet Union (just like England to this day is conflated w/ the United Kingdom). His usage of the term 'Soviet Russia' meant the USSR, rather than the RSFSR. Since Kazakhstan was a part of the USSR, this genre of jokes could remain relevant for this case.
At any rate, this is by no means the worst to hit Kazakhstan. Nor are Borak caricatures of that country. The worst thing that could ever hit Kazakhstan is if it becomes a hotbed for Jihadi activity, since it was in medieval times the playground of Muslim sultanates, and an Islamic revival like in neighboring Uzbekistan could end up screwing them up to no end
Read the fine print he he.... Only Android mac win etc. mentioned OS wise... Oh the wonders of politicians without a technical clue.... Yes I am aware of the nix like bases of Android and Mac.... But hey if they want to be OS specific... Then the year of the Linux Desktop has finally arrived ;)
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The mistake that both Bush 41 and Clinton 42 made was that they allowed their State Departments to continue to keep Russia in the adversaries column, long before Putin surfaced. Letting Russia fester and supporting secessionist movements there like the Chechens was a bi-partisan sin. But the biggest issue w/ them is that they never realized that Islam replaced Communism as the free world's #1 enemy, and is even more lethal than either Nazism or Communism
Most of the stans are still pretty similar to their Soviet era regimes, and in their case, that's a good thing. This coming from someone who's normally anti-Communist. While personality cults like the late Niyazov was bad, the good thing about regimes of Nazarbayev, Karimov et al is that they've kept Jihadis in check, cracking down on them in the way they need to be cracked. Kyrgyzstan tried to be free but ended up having to deal w/ an Uzbek insurgency. Tajikistan is effectively in a civil war. Having Brezhnev like leaders in these countries is a good thing, since the alternative would probably be Taliban style regimes going right up to Russia's & China's borders, and a vast heartland for Jihadis
and a host of other corporations exactly how? In time the pigs look like the humans and the humans look like the pigs....
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Borat Sagdiyev, after returning to KZ from trying to score Pam Anderson...is now in charge of certs for KZ.
And Tsarist Russia as well. Putin is running for Tsar.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Was your sister OK?
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Kazakhstan basically consists of northern part - Russian Southern Siberia and southern part - Kazakhstan proper - and has been separated from Russia by Stalin in 1936. The northern part was part of Russia and inhabited by Russians during about 400 years after fall of Golden Horde. If you look at Google Maps you see that northern part has mostly Russian names and the southern one - Kazakh ones.
Browser Learnings of Public Key for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan!
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I was hoping to see this.
Very nice NOT!
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A moose bit my sister once ... it was very painful.
We must keeel this squirrel and moose!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
That resembles a very old joke: "Hello! I'm a very silly virus: my author is a fool and had made me impotent. Please copy me to all your friends manually to allow me to spread."
This sounds like it'll only work if they also ban Cert Pinning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I just pooped your party.
And in a fine example of global cooperation and friendship Turkey took the time out of their busy day to help the Russian pilots re-calibrate their GPS system coordinates to demark the Turkish border.
In that case, Russia should just annex the northern part of the country - a la Crimea
ah ha, that's so right it's wrong. Or so much horse flesh dragged along behind the unstoppable juggernaut of a cart.
Tsar Putin - but of course! Except, why would Putin want to limit himself to the powers and capabilities of a mere Tsar?
And as for Putin being in the running ... well only if you mean "Putin is standing still, awaiting the unanimous demand of the people's of the RF that he take up the new post of hereditary First Secretary for life.
I just realised - I don't know if Putin has any children or not. That might make an interesting change. [...] Oh, two daughters. So, conventional family-based dictatorship then. Much like the Bushes.
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