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Written by Matt Campbell on 2025-01-21 at 14:24

I wonder how bad surveillance and control of US residential Internet connections will get in the new administration. Thankfully we now have HTTPS damn near everywhere, but I suppose if they went full totalitarian, they could get ISPs to require us all to use state-supplied root certs so they can decrypt our traffic. And they could still get clues from DNS and SNI.

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Written by Matt Campbell on 2025-01-21 at 14:28

I guess it's way easier to recruit snitches among our followers and fediverse instance admins. So do we have to shut up on here?

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Written by amd on 2025-01-21 at 16:22

@matt this is not and has never been a secure communications platform.

If you need to talk about stuff that you don’t want state powers to see, there are a lot of steps you’d need to take beyond don’t talk on fedi

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Written by Matt Campbell on 2025-01-21 at 16:31

@amd Sure, that has always been true, at least in theory. But I wonder is, is talking critically or even just showing concern about what the new administration is doing, on the fediverse or on the public web outside of the big tech platforms, enough to get one targeted as an enemy, or will it be soon?

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