🚨 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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Wenn Let’s Encrypt plötzlich nicht mehr klappt, wird das halbe Internet aus Zertifikatsfehlern bestehen. https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-Trump-Dekret-Kampf-um-US-Foerdermittel-fuer-Tor-F-Droid-und-Let-s-Encrypt-10328226.htmlMastodon
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This single time in history it would be wise to actually consider lights in the sky a fucking sign.
Edit: Tunguska and the big one 65 million years ago should probably count as well.
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Weather is heating up and that means travel season! But state repression/surveillance/harassment is heating up too, esp at border crossings.
This guide to rights and digital security at US border crossings was written in 2022, but all the information is still good, accurate and relevant even though it doesn't include all the details of our current circumstances, esp as it relates to detention and denial of entry of visa and green card holders. I think it's an especially useful guide for US citizens who don't have immigration considerations.
"At the Threshold of the Empire: Border Crossings, Government Harassment, and How to Protect Yourself"
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At the Threshold of the Empire: Border Crossings, Government Harassment, and How to Protect Yourself
Last weekend, an activist from Austin was detained at the Austin airport by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) upon reentry to the U.S. after traveling abroad. They were held for about 3 hours and…ATX Anarchist Black Cross
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"This interview is a reflection on the successes and missteps of the Koreatown Popular Assembly (KPA), an attempt at neighborhood based organizing that existed from 2016-2022 and aimed to confront the first Trump administration’s deportation policies. With Trump now back in power, many are once again looking for models to defend themselves and their communities from an even more rabidly anti-immigrant agenda."
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How the Koreatown Popular Assembly Organized Neighborhood Power to Confront ICE
Members of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation speak with organizers of the Koreatown Popular Assembly (KPA), who worked to stop deportations and ICE raids during the first Trump administration....It's Going Down
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Signal provides:
- Excellent protection against third party interception of communications (wiretapping).
- Limited protection against compromised (hacked) or lost devices
- No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat).
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If you look at the systems that are supposed to be used for classified communications, the underlying cryptography isn’t particularly different from Signal (the AES cipher can be used to protect classified material). That’s not what failed here.
The difference is that systems like Signal are designed to *facilitate* communication with anyone. Classified systems are designed to *limit* communication to authorized recipients.
Both are sensible for their respective - very different - purposes.
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Aral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •@letsencrypt These folks? They seem very commercial. What’s to stop them offering the free certs tomorrow? There’s value in having a noncommercial EU alternative funded with taxpayer money.
buypass.com/products/tls-ssl-c…
Buy Norwegian SSL certificates
Buypass.comAlan
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@letsencrypt
EU really needs to take charge here. Let's Encrypt is essential.
Achim provides a bit more context about this move and the dubious legalities of cutting off OTF here:
eupolicy.social/@achimkla/1142…
Unfortunately it seems a number of Small Web/FOSS projects are affected by this.
Achim Klabunde
2025-03-23 13:24:53
Aral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •Guill.Jones, Honorary Canadian
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_T…
American non-profit corporation
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)darq
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •zerossl.com/letsencrypt-altern…
Just saying
Yeah it would suck but it wouldn't be the end
Let's Encrypt Alternative - ZeroSSL
zerossl.comdarq
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Klaus Frank
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •We already have multiple European alternatives to @letsencrypt
We have ZeroSSL (Austria) and Buypass Go SSL (Norway).
So no problem here.
#LetsEncrypt
Saupreiss #Präparat500
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •ZeroSSL is also around (Austrian company).
But yes, indeed: They’re Both commercial, so not complete replacements. Still better than a monoculture under US jurisdiction.
@EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet
Aral Balkan
in reply to Saupreiss #Präparat500 • • •Saupreiss #Präparat500
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Of course. And with commercial, I envy rather things like Cooperatives, a Model that I believe we all should be looking into when it comes to European Clouds.
(Not without tech examples; the German NIC is for example organized like that.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperat…
@EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet
autonomous association of persons or organizations
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •We need CACert more than ever now
cacert.org/
Welcome to CAcert.org
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Unknown parent • • •motofix
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •After Trump's decree: fight for US funding for Tor, F-Droid and Let's Encrypt
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •These happenings affected us too. @delta could not get a fund from OTF, causing disturbances in DC's development.
Alli
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •@kimvsparrentak
Something to bring on the table?
Martin Frost
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •European ACME SSL certificate providers | European Alternatives
European AlternativesAral Balkan
in reply to Martin Frost • • •Martin Frost
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Gharbeia, Ⓐ
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Haven't they been acquired by a Canadian company?
Aral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •Aral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •@opalfrost @letsencrypt The thread’s broken. This was meant to be a reply to the four freedoms post?
Let’s Encrypr runs Boulder, released under MPL: github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
Afaik, everything they do is released under an open source license.
GitHub - letsencrypt/boulder: An ACME-based certificate authority, written in Go.
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Why move? They publish their tools, and the legal framework needs to be done again anyway. Let's set up a parallel one here.
There are 13 DNS root servers, I think we should have at least two free public certificate authorities. (Or, dun'no, maybe one per continent if the others want to do it too).
🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •"But what about funding IA-based innovation" (technofascism)…
EU probably doesn't give a flying fuck about small web…
@EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet
Aral Balkan
in reply to 🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣ • • •🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I wasn't even being sarcastic.
Giving a shitton of public money to technofascists 'because insert some bullshit about Artificial Stupidity" (according to people who don't know shit about computers but suddently decided "IA is the future/wijl improve everything cause marketing people said so") is actually one of the EU goals…
ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc…
@EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet
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