What if I were to tell you that Trump could knock any (or all) of over 20 million¹ European web sites off the Web tomorrow by picking up the phone to one US organisation: Let’s Encrypt.
We desperately need an independent, not-for-profit ACME provider in the EU paid for by our taxes.
CC European Commission (npub1m96…ag4y) #sovereignty
¹ This is just based on one firm’s analytics (https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/LetsEncrypt/EUROPE). Others put LE use at 50-60% of all web sites.
#TLS #web #EU #tech #sovereignty #US #fascism
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