Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
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Re: Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
#2Government turned Hacker, what a beautiful future!
Re: Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
#3How is forbidding browsers from distrusting spying CAs proposed to work? E.g. would using/distributing Firefox become a crime?
Re: Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
#4This is insane, and we should hurry up and prepare the technical ways to ensure we know it if we are served a different cert than everybody else.
There's ongoing work on this field, but it is now a priority to have it ready.
Re: Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
#5Government turned Hacker, what a beautiful future!
This future is just O.K. because in the age of digital weapons what else is supposed for governments to be?
The problem is that HTTPS is too government-addicted thing while a decent anti-MITM feature might/should be just a Diffie-Hellman without any identity-preserving features, I mean just E2EE. At least for sites like HN (not banks).
Re: Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
#6>This enables the government of any EU member state to issue website certificates for interception and surveillance
Wouldn't this be very easy to identify?
Re: Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
#7I remember the good old days when everything was HTTP. Anyways, this is really only an issue for those who has an innate distrust in their government, something most EU citizens don't have.
Re: Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
#8I remember the good old days when everything was HTTP. Anyways, this is really only an issue for those who has an innate distrust in their government, something most EU citizens don't have.
>innate distrust in their government, something most EU citizens don't have
Was that a joke?
Re: Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
#9I remember the good old days when everything was HTTP. Anyways, this is really only an issue for those who has an innate distrust in their government, something most EU citizens don't have.
This is not about "their" government, but trusting every EU member state.
Re: Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
#10I remember the good old days when everything was HTTP. Anyways, this is really only an issue for those who has an innate distrust in their government, something most EU citizens don't have.
So that is a very selfish attitude from the poor bastards who have dis-trust from their government because their government screwed them over.
For example, in 2005 I moved next door to someone that a year later was busted for growing hennep. The Dutch government used/abused the neighbour on the other side to spy and harrass him. Even after he was arrested and convicted. Then I was harrassed in serious illegal ways because I was in the way, I lived literally between these two.
Then went on for more than 10 years!!! And the government and told the police never to respond to my calls and the justice department binned all of my police reports. And this guy was stealing from me and vandalizing things!
I forced it to court and the prosecutor deliberately made the case fail by excluding enormous amounts of evidence and lying to the judge. I member of the board of directors of the court was involved behind the scenes obstructing justice from there and that person is now the president of a Dutch court!!
These people illegally facilitated crimes against a third party innocent victim and then obstructed justice to prevent their crimes coming to light.
These people in the Dutch government would have access to the power needed to intercept my mail and would have an immoral motivation to do so.
How is that capability a good thing given this context?