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EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments

www.eff.org Article 45 Will Roll Back Web Security by 12 Years

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...

EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments::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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Article 45 Will Roll Back Web Security by 12 Years

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Great and in 2 -3 years we find out, that someone has actively abused this security hole for years and stole whatever master key is required, to create their own fake government CA and has been spying on everyone for years. Or political opposition was imprisoned before they could act. Best is, such man in the middle attacks allow for all sorts of things, including putting fake evidence on your computer.
Oh yes, no one would ever do that every, totally never happened and won't. Nazis will also never come back. What, they soon are the biggest party in Germany, in other countries too? And will dictate rules in the EU? No one could see that happening...
Where there's honey, there will be bears.
I just hope we can create a browser plugin to deny gov CAs automatically or a browser from outside EU to block that shit. ...until your ISP is forced by law to block traffic from these.
One step closer to a great EU firewall and it sucks. Good old salami tactics. Because at some point it doesn't even matter if there are ways to mitigate this spying, if the alternative are so complicated and uncomfortable to use, that 99,999% of the people won't bother.
- Commercial CAs are not that better either
  
  Companies always have a name and money to lose and are a hurdle for overreaching hands. The government has no reputation nor money to lose and a simple agreement opens all doors if it's already government owned. A big difference to me personally.
  The government should only ever own things that would fail or be worse, if in public hands. Like infrastructure for instance.
  
  Absolutely don't agree that companies are more trustworthy than governments.
  My guess is that you have an awful government in your home country, but not here. And yes that could change, but they are at least voteable.
  Companies are NEVER your friend.
  
  Companies are ALWAYS your friend. The government - not so much.
  
  Large companies only care profit. They will hand over your privacy/security in a blank of an eye if to not do so costs them. Snowdon showed companies hand stuff to governments. I doubt it's changed. They are heart money machines remember.
  Least governments are in theory democratically accountable. Having to trust someone at all is really a problem with CAs. Maybe you want different CAs you can choose from. I'd trust one from nonprofit FOSS groups like Debian more than big tech or governments to be honest.
  
  Please tell me how Philip Morris and other big tobacco is my friend.
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/big-tobacco-kept-cancer-risk-in-cigarettes-secret-study/
  
  Companies always have a name and money to lose and are a hurdle for overreaching hands.
  Doesn't work.
  Government too have name, money and people to loose.
  The government has no reputation nor money
  Ok, in some sense they do not have money, but they definetly have reputation.
- Can someone tldr about the issue? I'm dumb?
  
  Me too. This video helped a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Df5_cojAs
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=T4Df5_cojAs
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
- Nazis will also never come back. What, they soon are the biggest party in Germany, in other countries too?
  Calling AfD Nazis is an exaggeration watering down the term.
  I'm not saying actual honest-to-God Nazis are not coming back. In fact, I'm sure they are, no evil is ever defeated forever. Time to cast away stones and time to collect stones.
  
  Calling AfD Nazis is an exaggeration watering down the term.
  The Verfassungsschutz (Office for Protection of the Constitution) classified the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt as right-wing extremists just last Tuseday. A year before that the AfD Thuringia was classified similarly by the respective Landesverfassungsschutz (State's Office for Protection of the Cnstitution), but was reclassified a level just before that as a suspected extremist right-wing party by the federal constitution protection office. The AfD-Juniors ("Junge Alternative") were classified as right-wing extremists last April by the Verfassungsschutz.
  They regularly catch ones attention with antisemitic, xenophobic statements at best and inhumane, anti-democratic sentiments at worst.
  Considering that they start to get more and more political posts on a communal level, and remembering that the communal political landscape played a pivotal role for the rise of the NSDAP (I would provide a source, but it's in German) I would certainly say that's something to be very worried about.
  I don't know what else you need. They speak like Nazis, they act like Nazis. They are Nazis. Just because they haven't reached that level of political power to set Jews and foreigners on fire again, doesn't mean they are harmless or that calling them out for what they are would "water down the term 'Nazi'".
  
  AfD in Saxony-Anhalt
  Yes, I've heard of that. I've also heard that they vary much in, eh, ideological climate in different states. So - it may be just a result of them being a populist party.
  I would provide a source, but it’s in German
  That'd be fine, I can't write and speak in German, but a wee bit better at understanding texts.
  They speak like Nazis,
  Not really, I've actually took a lot of interest in how Nazis really spoke when I was 15 years old. It was a weird time in my life, so wanted to know more closely things surely known to be evil and good to recognize evil and good in my surroundings.
  (Thinking of Klemperer's book.)
  "Antisemitic and xenophobic" statements are not limited to Nazis, while some specifically Nazi traits of speech I can see being more popular, but really not limited to AfD and the likes. Even here one can encounter such.
  they act like Nazis.
  I don't think they've started killing their opponents on the streets yet, or forming paramilitary groups.
  doesn’t mean they are harmless or that calling them out for what they are would “water down the term ‘Nazi’”
  You may be right, but parties and entities more similar to Nazis in other parts of the world usually were pretty open about their intentions from the very beginning, while AfD doesn't send the same signals.
  
  So - it may be just a result of them being a populist party.
  As far as I can see it, this is spreading.
  Regarding the source, here is one I was thinking about earlier:
  Eine besagt, daß vor 1933 sowohl im Deutschen Reich als auch in Thüringen für alle Bemühungen der Nazis gerade die kommunale Ebene eine bedeutsame Rolle gespielt hat.
  From: https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/ls_thueringen/2007_Wei%C3%9Fbecker_Kommunalpolitik_NSDAP.pdf page 2.
  Regarding the remaining part of your reply:
  It seems that you understand Nazis in a form when they were already at a state of having considerable amount of power. I understand Nazis already on a mere ideological level, that's why I see a lot of similarities between Nazis back then when they were just starting out, and those Neo-Nazis now who come in several colours and shapes. And especially the AfD seems to be a magnet for those extremists.
  “Antisemitic and xenophobic” statements are not limited to Nazis
  Yes of course not. This is just another exemplary piece of the whole image.
  I don’t think they’ve started killing their opponents on the streets yet, or forming paramilitary groups.
  As I said before, they haven't reached that level of power yet. Besides that:
  The politician Wolfgang Lübcke was killed by a right-wing extremist who had ties to the AfD. Even though - in all macabre "fairness" - the party is not responsible for that, this again shows a severe lack of distancing from right-wing extremism within the party.
  Then there is the "Reichsbürger" (citizen of the Reich) milieu, against whom police raids were conducted where plans to overthrow the government were revealed and a over 100 weapons were confiscated. This is not the AfD, yes. But here again, a lot of AfD members seem to tolerate or even downplay this (see for example this article). And let's not forget how a AfD politician gave tours to Reichsbürger-members through the government disctrict in preparation of them planning to storm the Bundestag.
  Even (former) AfD members criticize their (former) party and make comparisons with the NSDAP, like a former AfD city councillor.
  Let's deal with this here:
  They speak like Nazis,
  Not really
  Oh boy, I can give you many many many examples. But let's take one promiment one, since I've already written a lot: The floor leader of the AfD Thuringia, Björn Höcke, got his immunity lifted several times and against whom a criminal process is currently running for demagoguery and using the SA (Sturmabteilung of the NSDAP) slogan "Alles für Deutschland". (Since there are several articles about that and is also listed on wikipedia, you can easily find according sources yourself, but I'll leave you one article on that here for your convenience: Björn Höckes Immunität erneut aufgehoben .) There is so much more regarding his views and what he said, which makes it hard for me to not see him as a Nazi.
  Nazis in other parts of the world usually were pretty open about their intentions from the very beginning, while AfD doesn’t send the same signals
  Maybe a slightly deeper dive into AfD talk might change your mind ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--UWifFi978 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCScM7qd8g ). That's were our experiences seem to differ. It's a slow process, but there are many problematic signals (and as time goes on we get more and more of them) which show that the AfD are becoming a serious problem if they don't start to fight against extremists within their own party. The NSDAP didn't start sterilizing disabled people from day one either.
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=--UWifFi978
  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=2YCScM7qd8g
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
  A party tolerating Nazis in their ranks is not worth differentiating from a party made entirely out of Nazis.
  Ya know, if politicians have Himmler's instruction to produce more "aryan" babies hanging in their bedroom as a poster, it is safe to say it's a Nazi party.
  
  Anything is worth differentiating from a thing which is, well, different from it.
  Kemalists are not the same as Young Turks, for example (however, saying that Kemal and Kemalists are not a direct continuation of Young Turks for all intents and purposes is something only a clueless European would do, trying to whitewash them because Kemalist Turkey joined NATO early).

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