Technology

This is a shit show. People complain a lot about the UK breaking encryption and meanwhile the EU is doing the same, at a higher level without people even noticing.

Here the TL:DR; for anyone unfamiliar with the subject: eIDAS includes a lot of useful stuff but also requires browser to include CA designed by member states. Including a CA means that entity can issue SSL certificates that will be accepted / valid on those browser > this means the countries controlling those CA's can simply argue "national security" and have those CA's issue SSL certificates for ANY domain they would like and then use them to launch a man-in-the-middle attack against anyone they would like to. :)

The eu is very upset about this opposition, and published a hit piece “fact checking” pdf against it.

What can we do about it? Especially if we’re not EU citizens?

Shit, the EU's really on a roll with these draconian laws. There's also the "chat control" bullshit that'll wreck end-to-end encryption (see eg https://mullvad.net/en/chatcontrol for a list of sources)