Kazakhstan Decides To Break The Internet, Wage All Out War On Encryption

A new law takes effect in the new year that will require all citizens of the country to install a national, government-mandated security certificate allowing the interception of all encrypted citizen communications. In short, the country has decided that it would be a downright nifty idea to break HTTPS and SSL, essentially launching a "man in the middle" attack on every resident of the country.

Last month, Human Rights Watch described Kazakhstan as an authoritarian dictatorship with "few tangible and meaningful human rights." Freedom House, meanwhile, ranks Kazakhstan poorly when it comes to Internet freedom.