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Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security (last-chance-for-eidas.org)
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These changes radically expand the capability of EU governments to surveil their citizens by ensuring cryptographic keys under government control can be used to intercept encrypted web traffic

This enables the government of any EU member state to issue website certificates for interception and surveillance

https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2023/qualified-web-authentication-certificates-qwacs-in-eidas/

The browser ecosystem is global, not EU-bounded. Once a mechanism like QWACs is implemented in browsers, it is open to abuse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS

The proposal would force internet companies to place a backdoor in web browsers to let them perform a man-in-the-middle attack, deceiving users into thinking that they were communicating with a server they requested, when, in fact, they would be communicating directly with the EU government. […] If passed, the EU would be able to hack into any internet-enabled device, reading any sensitive or encrypted contents without the user's knowledge

See also: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/11/2/eu-digital-identity-framework-eidas-another-kind-of-chat-control/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Politics are a waste of time. The vast majority of political parasites are blackmailed by dark forces and will continue to push for tyrannical laws no matter how many times they fail.

A better option is to build and use unstoppable technologies and become self-sufficient and independent of the banker captured system. We need to create our own system based on voluntary cooperation instead of violence and threats of violence.