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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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[–] Saki@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

Although not interested in politics per se, I wouldn’t pretend I didn’t see it, just ignoring it, when something this bad is actually going on.

Freedom should be one of the core values of Monero. When one talks about anti-censorship, that includes fighting back (verbal arguments, reasonable public comments, non-obedience, etc.) against unfair infringement [often attempted under the pretest of “safety” “protecting children” “anti-terrorism” etc]. It’s important to share this kind of info, which is publicly available but “they” don’t want people to know and stop to think about it.

Information is—knowing is—power. The ability to control your personal information is privacy. Communication could be strong weapons. Or something like that… 😐 Aren’t we, like, cypherpunks?