The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted traffic—and get away with it. Article 45 forbids browsers from...
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I think that criminals will try and get those certs. Do big time damage to the EU and hopefully stop them pushing such bullshit…
Politicians do tend to be extremely tech savvy, though, so I doubt anything bad will happen with their copy of the certificates.
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Tbf the politicians usually either hire Halliburton or have one of the technically literate agencies handle this kind of stuff.
Until they pass a law making it super duper no-no bad for anyone but the government to use this power.
… cause that’s how the internets works, it’s okay when the government does it, and they are able to control everything on the internet through regulations. Didn’t you know that?
Like regulations ever helped on the internet.
Some hacking is ethical…
In fact most hacking is ethical. The public just doesn’t hear about it.
Tell that politicians xD
Someone was prosecuted for hacking bc they hit F12. Lmao, never gonna get over that.
I know that story, sad and funny altogether: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/12/missouri-planned-to-thank-security-journalist-before-governor-called-him-a-hacker/
Ah, looks like he was never prosecuted after all, but the whole situation was still a horrible mess.
Thats an older source, saw some newer on reddit last week. Try to find it. But nothing happened to our hacking hero xD
“newer”: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/missouri-governor-rebuffed-journalist-wont-be-prosecuted-for-viewing-html/