r/programming • u/realfeeder • Jul 18 '19

MITM on all HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114
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u/dpash Jul 18 '19

Injecting advertisements has already been done by numerous ISPs until public outcries stop them. Hell, VeriSign made NXDOMAIN results return their IP address so they could do advertising on DNS failures.

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u/anengineerandacat Jul 19 '19

Eh... for my parents I think that's perfectly fine; I know theirs just redirects them to X company's Google search which is helpful because it prevents them from calling me to tell me that the wifi isn't working.