So the regulation is being scrutinized now and it will have the catastrophic mandate for browsers to accept government mandated CAs (Certificate Authorities) which can not be audited or revoked in case of misbehaviour. This is really bad for Privacy and Security of users as there is no reason why those CAs can't be compromised by external actors or even by the government issuing them (government agancies would never spy right? ... right?). There are already countires in the EU with damaged democracies and those that are part of 9-Eyes or 14-Eyes, so this is not a far fetched conspiracy scenario but a real threat when you take in mind the risk scenario of all (EU) Browser users having their privacy and security endangered by eIDAS.
@@Suriprofz those exist, the issue being not everyone is competent enough to compile it themselfs, and browsers are mandated by law to not be able to remove those "trusted" CA's, essentially you would have to crack the browser or use a vpn and download the international version from what im getting, eitherways horrible
@@felixthecatboy Indeed. You would probably need to build firefox from source or something. but this is a hurdle that excludes "normal" users. It has beens shown time and time again that if something is hidden behind settings or even more work like compiling from source that users overwhelmingly will choose the easy option.
in a democracy you don't lose your freedom all of a sudden; they will take it inch by inch. Whoever sleeps during democracy will wake up in a dictatorship.
