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Are .ru sites safe? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not tech savvy and have noticed that many streaming sites are .ru, and as someone located in Finland, I want to make sure if they are dangerous to use.

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[+] ultratiem 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Third, a redirect is obvious

A redirect isn’t necessary if you control the DNS servers. If you control the DNS servers, you can MITM the website for any visitor because you can prove that you own the domain to a certificate authority and generate a new, trusted HTTPS cert. (Depending on specifics this may or may not foil the anti-phishing capabilities of Passkeys / U2F.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Actually, yandex.ru is a thing. It was the main domain for yandex for many years and became a redirect to dzen.ru as part of a deal between yandex and mail.ru (another Russian tech company). But dzen.ru still contains yandex search string, so there is not a lot of difference.