{"id":1872,"date":"2020-12-18T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T08:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2020-12-18T03:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T11:47:13","slug":"kazakhstan-root-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2020\/12\/18\/kazakhstan-root-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing to Protect our Users in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In a troubling rehash of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f5.com\/labs\/articles\/threat-intelligence\/kazakhstan-attempts-to-mitm-itscitizens\">events<\/a> from July 2019, Mozilla was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=1680927\">informed<\/a> that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Kazakhstan have begun telling their customers that they must install a government-issued root certificate on their devices to access internet services. When a user in Kazakhstan installs the root certificate provided by their ISP, they are choosing to trust a <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Glossary\/Certificate_authority\">Certificate Authority<\/a> (CA) that enables the interception and decryption of network communications between Firefox and the website.<br \/><br \/>As we <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2019\/08\/21\/protecting-our-users-in-kazakhstan\/\">stated<\/a> in 2019, we believe this act undermines the security of our users and the web, and it directly contradicts Principle 4 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/about\/manifesto\/\">Mozilla Manifesto<\/a> that states, \u201cIndividuals\u2019 security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.\u201d<br \/><br \/>As a result, Mozilla, as well as Apple, Google and Microsoft will block the use of the Kazakhstan root CA certificate within their browsers.\u200b Following Mozilla&#8217;s established <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/21\/mozilla-takes-action-to-protect-users-in-kazakhstan\/\">precedent<\/a>, this means that it will not be trusted by Firefox even if the user has installed it. When attempting to access a website that responds with this certificate, Firefox users will see an error message stating that the certificate should not be trusted.<br \/><br \/>We encourage users in Kazakhstan affected by this change to research the use of virtual private network (VPN) software or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/download\/\">Tor Browser<\/a>, to access the Web. We also strongly encourage anyone who followed the steps to install the <a href=\"https:\/\/crt.sh\/?id=3764973485\">Kazakhstan government root certificate<\/a> to remove it from your devices and to immediately change your passwords, using a strong, unique password for each of your online accounts. The Password Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/password-manager-remember-delete-edit-logins#w_managing-usernames-and-passwords\">built into<\/a> Firefox can be used to do this quite easily and across devices.<\/p>\r\n<p>This statement is also available in <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/files\/2020\/12\/Kazakhstan_2020_RootCA_Revo_kk-KZ.pdf\">Kazakh<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/files\/2020\/12\/Kazakhstan_2020_RootCA_Revo_ru-RU.pdf\">Russian<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a troubling rehash of events from July 2019, Mozilla was recently informed that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Kazakhstan have begun telling their customers that they must install a &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2020\/12\/18\/kazakhstan-root-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283198,173936,10139,10136],"tags":[173936,69,10136],"coauthors":[311653,45544],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Continuing to Protect our Users in Kazakhstan - Open Policy &amp; 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