The article seems to condemn Sandvine for selling its hardware to Belarus. I feel like it's a bit unfair to them.
There is nothing wrong per se with DPI firewalls, it's a usual commodity for any company or government, and IMHO Sandvine can hardly be held responsible for that.
The transitive responsibility of Sandvine seems too far fetched in this case.
DPI is needed if you want to scan for malware transported through https, but it is also just a plain MITM attack.
I can understand the desire and would support it as long as browser vendors don't include root certs of these firewalls, so that there is the need to at least kind of consent to it.
In my country you can disallow private usage of company machines. If people disregard that and share private info, you can still be guilty of a privacy violation if you expose the data. Sounds stupid at first, but it is one of those few laws in the digital space where smart people were involved.
That said, I agree that the accusation is unfair. Belarus is the worst dictatorship in Europe. It is like the USSR never failed. But you cannot forbid the usage of common infrastructure, even if you don't believe they want to scan for malware.
I hope no government will ever get a root cert trusted by browsers. It doesn't actually say in the article how the government evaded that problem. Or maybe users in Belarus are already trained to ignore those fat warnings about compromised TLS.
This article should be flagged. This website seems to be affiliated with Utopia P2P. The title is pure clickbait. Original Bloomberg article mentions nothing about Utopia P2P. I'm skeptical of the software claims. They don't release the code nor they give details on how it works. Honestly it looks like they bundled Tor with some other software together into a nice GUI. Nothing special.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 45.5 ms ] thread- Second, what's this quackery of "Utopia"? It looks super shady...
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There is nothing wrong per se with DPI firewalls, it's a usual commodity for any company or government, and IMHO Sandvine can hardly be held responsible for that.
The transitive responsibility of Sandvine seems too far fetched in this case.
I can understand the desire and would support it as long as browser vendors don't include root certs of these firewalls, so that there is the need to at least kind of consent to it.
In my country you can disallow private usage of company machines. If people disregard that and share private info, you can still be guilty of a privacy violation if you expose the data. Sounds stupid at first, but it is one of those few laws in the digital space where smart people were involved.
That said, I agree that the accusation is unfair. Belarus is the worst dictatorship in Europe. It is like the USSR never failed. But you cannot forbid the usage of common infrastructure, even if you don't believe they want to scan for malware.
I hope no government will ever get a root cert trusted by browsers. It doesn't actually say in the article how the government evaded that problem. Or maybe users in Belarus are already trained to ignore those fat warnings about compromised TLS.