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The things that get me thinking are:

- for a CA that is business (or a non-profit), trust is their product, and if Let's Encrypt fails at it's job then clients can go elsewhere

- not sure but in EU I would assume they are going to install all member states' CA certificates into all browsers, so then EU member state government A can MITM a connection for a citizen of member state B

- even if a website has a certificate from any current provider, any EU government can still MITM a user without the company knowing

Also, as it's technically possible to combat the legislation then how much would it actually help, wouldn't any "criminal" pay attention to it too, e.g by using an appropriate browser?




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