Hi Yoav,
At 13:08 11-08-2012, Yoav Nir wrote:
These operators are (hypothetically) Libyan citizens,
right? Residents of Libya who
Yes.
The number of international gateways does not matter, if all the
operators have to comply with the government's blacklist, or have to
install a government-mandated policy on a government-mandated firewall.
Yes.
As these government-mandated policies only end up intercepting HTTP
traffic it not worth the bother arguing about it. The entertaining
part of the government blacklists is that they are maintained by an
organization in another country.
Not trusting the certificate just means you get annoying warnings.
It won't let you circumvent it. Living in an authoritarian country
means you don't get to play cat & mouse with your government
In most countries you don't play cat and mouse with the government.
I thought it was Al Gore running the Internet from his garage, no?
:-)
Regards,
-sm