In general none of the disclosures of what GFW is doing g should be seen as evidence that western governments do not do the same thing. Hope nobody is drawing that conclusion.

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bjt 3 days ago | parent [-]

Western governments do not routinely block VPNs.

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bigyabai 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Western governments effectively control 99% of consumer technology, and hack whatever else they can't have. VPNs are a false sense of security going up against a nation-sized adversary like the US.

	▲	throwaway48476 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		They also can correlate packet streams in and out of the tor network.

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hulitu 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Different phylosophy: why block VPNs when you can monitor them. Most Root CAs are in US.

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immibis 2 days ago | parent [-]

Certificate transparency is mandatory in browsers; interception certificates appear in certificate logs to be accepted. Have you found one?

Edit: OCSP has been ended.

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edgineer 2 days ago | parent [-]

He might be referring to OCSP. Browsers ping CAs by default, revealing to them the sites that are visited.

	▲	arcfour 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		OCSP is very much on the way out, this is hardly true anymore; although some things still check OCSP, many things do not.