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• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s dumb and will never happen

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  • AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the US there was a period of time where it was illegal to export encryption above a certain level, so in a way it has already happened. Dumb has never stopped governments before.

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    • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Friend of mine back then bought the T-shirt 😁

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    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How would ssl work if you ban encryption?

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      • Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There was a proposal to have webbrowsers have to accept government certificates. Consequently they could man-in-the-middle/take over domains.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I hope so it would be so idiotic to try.

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  • Caradoc879@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean… they literally try to fuck up the internet every few years. Eventually they’ll get someth8ng through.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nah, that’s UK.

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  • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you sure about that> The UK is doing dumb stuff no doubt, but its mostly sound and fury of a dying government with no chance of actually being implemented.

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