Effects of Pervasive Encryption on Operators

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So the same operators are now complaining about encryption that didn't consider the consequences of MiTM modifying the traffic, like adding elements on HTML pages or altering DNS NXDOMAIN to redirect to an advertisement portal?

Too late now. Encryption is here to stay.

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/redirectingdnsf...

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/att-hits-pause-privacy-busting...

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2925839/net-neutrality/cod...

This is funny... if operators are crying now, I can just imagine what will happen with quantum based communications, where you can't even look at the data without corrupting it!

Wasn't there some famous short story about a planet whose inhabitants jammed all frequencies as the final evolution of warfare? If quantum entanglement is the answer, others will work to just make communication impossible (if it can't be observed).

That sounds very interesting, could expand on it?

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