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Russian largest bank's website not opening without Russia-issued certificate

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Probably related to this [1][2] and giving their government the ability to monitor traffic. Their tech-savvy citizens are still able to use a handful of VPN's but I suspect those days are approaching an end. Many of their Youtubers have already fled the country.

[1] - https://threatpost.com/russia-issues-its-own-tls-certs/17889...

[2] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-r...

It's not really about traffic monitoring, it's because this bank is under sanctions and no certification authority wants/is able to issue them a certificate.

Government does not need to monitor traffic between you and your bank when it can get all the intel it needs from your bank directly.

Autotranslation for the lazy: https://www-iphones-ru.translate.goog/iNotes/sayt-sberbanka-...

It's strange that Safari does not allow to bypass the problem with the certificate.

For even lazier people, here's the translations :

Yesterday, Sber announced that it was transferring the official website of Sberbank to the Russian security certificate issued by the Ministry of Digital Development.

Today the site has already become inaccessible to many users. Without additional installation of a special certificate, Chrome, Opera and Firefox report that the site can be used by scammers, but offer to bypass this ban at your own risk. Safari throws an error and under no circumstances loads the bank's main page. At the same time, Sberbank Online works without restrictions.

To avoid the error, you can manually install the Mintsifra certificate, which takes less than a minute. Or you can download Yandex Browser , which already has a certificate built into it.

The Russians will only see more of this as Putin cranks down on the thumbscrews. Any freedom they gained since the 90s collapse will all be gone in a few years. He has become the hermit dictator and will do anything to shut down threats to himself and his inner circle, the future of russia and her citizens prosperity means absolutely nothing to him. Ukraine is a macho ego project and has nothing to do with the prosperity of the country, it's just a distraction.

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