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Sep 2020
12m 52s

Russia Follows in China’s footsteps and ...

Hussein Nasser
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It looks like Russia is submitting a proposal to block TLS 1.3, ESNI, DoH , DoT, let us discuss  Resources  https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-wants-to-ban-the-use-of-secure-protocols-such-as-tls-1-3-doh-dot-esni/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM 
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