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by Jensson 965 days ago
It got downvoted since it says this regulation isn't made to spy on people. People want to believe it was made for a sinister purpose and not just due to naivete.

If you look around you see plenty of people that gets upvoted and are critical of EU, so that isn't it.

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We had a recent MITM on jabber.ru[1] conducted by Germany, a EU state that was only detected because they failed to renew the MITM cert. I have no reason to believe making this easier isn’t one of the goals of EIDAS.

[1] https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/

How can you make this any easier? The ergonomics of letsencrypt are probably better than anything the EU could come up with.

Fair chance they'll just keep using letsencrypt.