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Yes, SSL.

That makes me wonder... I wonder if there is a process by which providers would sign certs to individual ISPs and providers to let them intercept low/medium security content like streaming.

Like, if Netflix is going to serve streams over TLS for philosophical/privacy-from-government/privacy-from-wifi reasons, but wants to lets ISPs cache data, they could create a certificate for each ISP/organization and provide the keys to that org.

Then, if NF can identify you are coming from a particular ISP, they can have your content served from the ISP's netflix subdomain, and the ISP could intercept/cache/re-encrypt the data.

Just a thought.

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Could be, but it would be terrible if it went beyond impersonal data like Netflix content. One of the main benefits of SSL is that you don't have to trust your ISP or anyone else in-between with your data. I'm not a crypto expert, but your proposal sounds like a backdoor that could be abused.