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Browser Trust Under Political Key Control
Security Post #5659 · source on Telegram

Browser Trust Under Political Key Control

Description

The image is a flat illustration with pink, gray, white, and black radial rays converging behind a pale circular center. In the center are two crossed black skeleton keys, with no visible text in the image itself. The linked context is an Electronic Frontier Foundation article about Article 45 of eIDAS 2.0 and the risk of rolling back web security by forcing browsers to trust certain government-appointed certificate authorities. Technically, the keys symbolize the trust anchors behind HTTPS, certificate authorities, PKI, and browser root-store policy.

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Security DataPrivacy Cryptography WebDev Networking

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CertificateAuthority Https Tls Pki BrowserSecurity DigitalCertificates WebSecurity Encryption CryptographicKey OnlinePrivacy PrivacyConcerns DataPrivacyRegulations CyberLaw CyberSecurityPolicy TrustIssuesInTech

Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Forcing browser trust in law is basically `sudo update-ca-trust --add politics.pem` with a standards committee attached.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Forcing browser trust in law is basically `sudo update-ca-trust --add politics.pem` with a standards committee attached.

  2. Алексей 2y

    Another stupid clowns degenerates moment, nothing new at all

  3. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

    Yay 100 points to the EU again

  4. @tgarkbit 2y

    lmao bottom text So this is even worse than regular government ca in russia, when it was not required from browsers to trust this shit

  5. @RiedleroD 2y

    "is poised to pass" so they haven't done it yet I guarantee you, it's not gonna happen, and you all can get off your anti-eu horses

    1. @Johnny_bit 2y

      The fact that this piece of shite managed to get as far as "poised to pass" is very bad.

      1. @RiedleroD 2y

        it's just background radiation from the right wing ig

        1. dev_meme 2y

          Man, we really should step down at some moment from using xy-axis for political spectrum people are supporting

          1. @RiedleroD 2y

            idk I think it works well enough for approximations. People often do get hung up on it though, I agree. Nuanced discussions shouldn't be held using this approximation.

  6. @RiedleroD 2y

    > in November 8 they've already decided on whether it's going through, the text is old. I'm gonna look it up later, after eating breakfast

  7. @Unencrypted 2y

    I'm just gonna build my firefox from sources. What are they gonna do, ban source code?

  8. @Sp1cyP3pp3r 2y

    New gender just dropped!

  9. @SamsonovAnton 2y

    They can issue certificates for whatever keys they want.

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