'Black boxes' to monitor all internet and phone data

[Recursion]

I'm not quite getting how they're planning to decrypt SSL personally.

They're your ISP, the perfect place for a "man in the middle" attack. SSL is extremely easy to circumvent if you can be that "man".

SSL Strip's a nice tool for this sort of thing: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/

[N!ck]

They're your ISP, the perfect place for a "man in the middle" attack. SSL is extremely easy to circumvent if you can be that "man".

SSL Strip's a nice tool for this sort of thing: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/

There's no way to do it and keep a proper SSL setup on the client's end though.

[dbgtz]

It's so nice that people pay taxes so government can then spend it on monitoring them. Perhaps if it got a few hundred thousand signs on the e-petitions they may listen. Then again, probably not.

[Recursion]

There's no way to do it and keep a proper SSL setup on the client's end though.

True, but the average user isn't going to notice... especially if browsers are still willing to accept the certificate as valid.

[HotelUser]

On Reddit in the politics section inbetween the typical American crap wherin a handful of them are crying like babies over actually having to pay a little bit out of their own pocket to save poor fellow citizen's lives I saw a lot of talk about what's going on over in the UK to do with these boxes. I also saw something about the UK complying with the extradition of a citizen on copyright infringement (which Jimmy Wales petitioned against, apparently). I was also recently again reminded that you folks are banned from viewing the Pirate Bay, when I was helping a friend set up torrenting on their machine come to find out that they couldn't access TPB at all (hooray for magnets!).

This is all ridiculous and is a huge shame for you guys to have to deal with. I would totally understand if what the UK was doing actually benefited its citizens and its own industries but wanting to extraditing one of their own to the states for a weak case of copyright infringement? I doubt Israeli wouldn't even of done that for the states. I hope Canada does not follow in the footsteps of what's going on internet-wise with the UK, because then our internet will be even more overpriced and truly worthless.