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Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Considering that this has been in the works for ~~a year~~ two years already and there haven't been any reports of banks and insurance agencies objecting, your version of "it can't happen here" seems less than fully convincing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The fact it has been in the works for two years and not passed tells me that the powers that be are working to stop it in the background.

I could be wrong, we will have to wait and see. But this is not the first or last time I have seen governments try to break authentication without success.