Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.
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The Free Software projects in question: Tor, Let's Encrypt, and F-Droid
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
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I'm no longer on speaking terms with any voters
I'm no longer on speaking terms
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The solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
These are FOSS projects, not open source. They'd no longer be FOSS and that would be bad. Freedom 0 is important.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
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I'm no longer on speaking terms
Hey! I'm speaking!
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These are FOSS projects, not open source. They'd no longer be FOSS and that would be bad. Freedom 0 is important.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
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I did not knew that Tor was getting funded by the american state. Thats giving me some spooky vibes.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
Delta Chat was one of the FOSS projects affected:
https://chaos.social/@delta/114211300446944585 -
The solution to this is simple. A change to the MIT license to bar .gov projects to use the open source projects.
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We're going to have to try or potentially lose the project
Let me spell it out for you. Trump has removed our cyber defenses and now he's defunding FOSS projects like Tor and Let's Encrypt!…
Now Trump wouldn't know a FOSS project from a hole in the ground but do you know who does? What world leader who has an entire cyber attack force on his payroll and wants to remove any barriers in finding dissidents who are probably using Tor to coordinate and hide from them?
Do the math. If the government funding of these projects is allowed to be removed it's gonna be a whole new ballgame on the internet and the only ones to reap the benefits are the dictators.
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HTTP works pretty well, if you don't mind various governments spying on the traffic.
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Cut off .gov domains
.gov is using let's encrypt? That's pathetic.
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they have more sponsors and won't go broke because of this
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the enemy is both weak and strong
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HTTP works pretty well, if you don't mind various governments spying on the traffic.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
As far as Let's Encrypt goes, the easy way to solve that is self-signed SSL certificates and Tofu. Just make it stupid obvious if an SSL certificate changes on a site that you go to. Like, turn your browser into a giant red screen that says that the security of the website has changed and may be broken obvious. Maybe you could have search engines also index SSL certificates so you could see if Google and Bing and DuckDuckGo and whoever else all say that this website has the same SSL certificate that it has had for X amount of time and if the search engines start showing different results you get suspicious
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... Except not using it would be less secure, so I'm not sure I'm following..
