Wow, I wonder why Russia and China haven’t done this yet.
I mean, the US, people have guns, so implementing this might cause people to just start rioting.
But Russia and China has strict gun controls, its totally feasible to implement this.
They could be, but I assume say like an apple device won’t install a ccp root authority unconditionally. Huawei and xiamoi probably could be forced, but the browser too, like Chrome, Firefox and safari need to also accept the device certificates as trusted.
But the pressure in Europe would likely be to trade within Europe, you must comply.
It fundamentally destroys the whole trust of PKI if this did go ahead. We just need to hope it does not.
apple device won’t install a ccp root authority unconditionally
They already removed VPN apps from the Mainland China version of the Apple App Store. In capitalism, profits are above everything else. China is a very large market with 1.4 Billion people, I doubt Apple is gonna be willing to lose access to this market.
LyingCake@feddit.org 3 days ago
I think this is a very short-sighted, surface level take that shows of a very naive understanding of how societies become more totalitarian.