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Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”
Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.
If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?
(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)
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@aral they can't. that'd completely go against their values.
this is like asking them to refuse letsencrypt in Russia, they can't. it's an automated certificate system, they can't just prevent the issuing certificates simply because of their party.
even big websites, like the national security agency, and even whitehouse.gov use letsencrypt as well, so it wouldn't be a good sign for anyone.
@adisonverlice If "following your values" prevents you from taking material action to impede the advance of nazis, you need to reevaluate or reprioritize your values.
@dalias I see where you're going with this. but again, let's put out the hypothetical senarios that the letsencrypt foundation stopped the (nazi's) stopped issuing certificates for them.
again, this will not slow them down, as again, they can turn to other paid providers who will gladly do it to them. again, take digicert. they issue certs for almost all of the government sites becides the NSA and few others. for example, https://www.defense.gov uses digicert. so if the (nazi's) wanted to, they could simply use digicert, it's not out of their budget. also, don't forget about GTS (google trust services) and also cloud flare.
so it would slow them down at best, do nothing at worst
@dalias also keep in mind they issue certificates to, everyone, who requests them. it could be a small web dev like myself, it could be the ritch politition in America, they will issue certs for literally anyone.
"Let's Encrypt is a global Certificate Authority (CA). We let people and organizations around the world obtain, renew, and manage SSL/TLS certificates."
@adisonverlice @dalias "Everyone" excepts those the US government doesn't like. They don't issue (and revoke them if they did) to entities under US sanctions.