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at the trilogue meeting, secretly negotiating legislation to reduce web browser security (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The legislation requires web browsers to trust EU countries' CAs (which browsers already tend to do, but are presently free to remove when they're observed being misused) and prohibits doing non-ETSI-approved validity checks (eg, certificate transparency, which is a way CA-misusing MITM attackers can be caught).

Wouldn't you say the point of that particular clause is to reduce browser security (so that cops and intelligence agencies are free to exploit it without interference from CT)?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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