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Can I have the same military grade security standards with Fedora than Red Hat?

My guess is that the "government standards" you refer to are actually certifications like Common Criteria or the approval for use inside a specific classification level like NATO restricted, top secret …
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Any known cases of government backdoors creating exploitable security holes?

Government mandated export regulations lead to the EXPORT ciphers in SSL. These ciphers were used outside the USA because the stronger ciphers could not be exported. …
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How difficult is it for ISPs to understand a user is using VPN?

If the government demands, isn't it possible for the ISP to provide a list of customers who could be using VPN by making a list of customers who are always hitting a single IP (as the user always connects … If the government knows we are using a VPN, won't it get more attention from them. Depending where you live this might happen. …
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What does Obama's phone say about Android and phone hardware?

The phone you are talking about is not the stock Samsung S4. As you can read in the article the cameras are removed, there is a special app store only and there are special apps on it. It also states …
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Are there technical reasons why state actors may be more able of carrying out malware cybera...

cryptographers, power to influence standard bodies or the power to make companies weaken the security of their products (like weakening cryptography or adding backdoors) if they still want to sell to the government
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Can government track VPN traffic if it has control on both ISP and website server?

If that is the case, can the government identify me, by matching VPN server address and timestamp in ISP log and server log of example.com? …
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Can a Government block a specific app traffic, even with a VPN running?

In theory one could use heuristics to guess the kind of traffic. A typical example is flow analysis where one analysis the size, direction and timing of transferred data because various protocols and …
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Is there a way to make sure my government does not swap out SSL certificates?

There are also mechanism like secure boot or certificate pinning which help to prevent or detect smaller modifications but might be simply bypassed by a more sophisticated attacker (government agencies … But assuming that attacks like replacing CA certificates or MITM using government controlled (and browser-trusted) CA will not target only such unsophisticated users but will be more widespread it is likely …
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Untraceable software development

For example government agencies are regularly able to infiltrate closed forums in the dark net even though the administrators of such forums try very hard to screen new members. …
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Can Cellebrite be used to access any phone by the government? What is the point of encryptio...

Messages containing just food recipes usually have a low value even in repressive countries, while messages which show conflicts with the government might be of low sensitivity in some countries but might … So, if the government is interested in your data then you need to have different protections than if only your friend is too nosy. …
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