Comment on With LLMs, censoring internet at the router level has become trivial
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Boss decided to block anything related to gaming, for example. You visit a small game developer page and it initially works but after a few minutes, you get a “blocked” page (but customers can’t see that because nowadays everything uses HTTPS and they don’t have the self signed CA on their system - they just see HTTPS certificate error). I tried multiple times but always the same result, after a few minutes is blocked.
That’s not “AI”. That’s just a “man in the middle (mitm)” attack. AKA, https proxy. Fortinet firewalls have been capable of that for many years. It’s not uncommon for businesses (e.g. banking and finance) to proxy all internal web traffic in order to make sure personally identifiable information isn’t being shared with shady websites.
Proxying traffic on the guest WiFi is pretty sketchy though.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 days ago
I was used to normal fortinet filter (they block porn and warez in the work net which is acceptable) but this new one seems extreme, borderline unusable. You have one chance in the router lifetime to browse an obscure lifetime and then next time it’s already in blacklist. I think they pay some kind of subscription for ai autoclassification because there’s no way with human support it can be updated this fast