South Korean telecom company attacks customers with malware — over 600,000 torrent users report missing files, strange folders, and disabled PCs
www.tomshardware.com
ISP sends malware to hundreds of thousands of customers to stop them from using a file-sharing service.
    • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Well for one, ISPs are not the government, and two, if any CA was caught doing this, browsers like firefox would drop them. Hopefully google would too, but who knows. Thats an aweful lot of risk on their part.

        • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Exactly, and with ISPs not being the government, they can not force CAs to do anything. And yes, if a CA complys with an insane law that allows anyone to skirt around security and privacy (their ENTIRE purpose), they will lose the faith of the public, and people will drop them. Whether it was legal or not doesn’t matter much for public sentiment.

            • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              Thats hilarious 😂 I can name over half a dozen of them that do it on a regular basis.

                • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  6 months ago

                  In canada, Shaw is one that glaringly and repeatedly violates Canadian Personal Privacy laws, in fact, nearly every ISP does so with only a few exceptions. Nothing usually happens to them, and if it does its just a small slap on the wrist. Its cost of doing business to them.

                  In canada at the very least, an order like that from the government to a CA wouldn’t even be lawful. Just have to hope the CA has decent lawyers…