Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security — Mozilla
Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security — Mozilla
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Last Chance to fix eIDAS
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We just came from the chat control odissey. This is so tiring and unjust for those that have agitated lives. We re fighting against people who spend their work schedule entirely on this stuff.
There isn’t much info on this.
What can I do as an European citizen in this case???
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If you have the time, you could write to the member of the European Parliament who is responsible (Romana Jerković). Otherwise, the best you can do is probably to spread the word and remember to vote next year.
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I suppose a non-compliant browser will need to be build if this comes to pass.
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The free world is one step closer to authoritarianism.
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The so called free world was never free.
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It seems like EU has two groups - one which wants to have mass surveillance and one which tries to protect privacy.
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I like to compare the EU to an overprotective parent -- on the one hand, they want to protect us from all external threats, but at the same time, they want to know all about us and control us.
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I'm so sick of being stressed about the same thing over and over again. There needs to be a large scale investigation on the people that keeps trying to push this. I'm shocked there isn't a constant media outrage to match these attacks. And I don't hear anybody talking of codifying encryption integrity neither. It's always just privacy experts discovering such attacks at the last minute seemingly by chance and trying to rally people against it in time. Does nobody in positions of power who care to stop these?
The media is generally owned by very wealthy people and, as a result, reports in ways that benefit the rich and powerful. Centralization of media is very bad for democracy.
Its awfully convenient the news doesnt say anything almost like they are owned by the elite simply to control the masses.
Media targets the average citizen. Average citizens won't easily understand the ramifications, so the media writes on clickable stories instead.
Media could just oversimplify it: „the EU wants to know what porn you watch“, „this law allows your country to grab all your passwords“.
My dude the Crypto wars get wheeled out again every few years and has for decades at this point. It’s so tiring.
I haven't had a chance to check anything yet, but given who (Mozilla) is reacting and how, I suspect this is just another case of EU authorities acting to protect their citizens from (American) corporate abuse
Not in this case. I suggest you read the open letter (which is signed by 335 scientists and researchers from 32 countries so far).
Or, do you consider it to be corporate abuse when Mozilla prevents governments from using their certificate authorities to launch MITM attacks and impersonate websites for the purpose of intercepting internet traffic? Because that is what we're talking about.
How is giving any EU state the ability to be a certificate authority in your browser for issing a certificate for any site, without them needing to follow the rules the browser vendors have for what makes an authority trustworthy, with no option to disable them or add additional checks to their validity, "protecting their citizens from (American) corporate abuse"?
From the Mozilla post: