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A month ago I did a thought experiment about @letsencrypt:
mastodon.social/@BjornW/114064…
Now I read this by @aral:
mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114224434…
Apparently Let's Encrypt is/was at risk of losing a substantial amount of funding from opentech.fund (OTF). Other projects like Tor are/were also hit by these policy changes from the Trump administration. BUT, OTF fought back and seems to be OK:
theregister.com/2025/03/25/otf…
For now. Interesting times.
#OpenSource LetsEncrypt #Tech #Open #USpol #TechPolicy
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts
Updated: Kari, are you OK, are you OK, Kari?Thomas Claburn (The Register)
🚨 Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.
If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?
(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)
CC @nlnet @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz
#USA #fascism #OpenTechFund #LetsEncrypt #SSL #TLS #encryption #EU #web #tech #SmallWeb #SmallTech mastodon.social/@publictorsten…
publictorsten (@publictorsten@mastodon.social)
Wenn Let’s Encrypt plötzlich nicht mehr klappt, wird das halbe Internet aus Zertifikatsfehlern bestehen. https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-Trump-Dekret-Kampf-um-US-Foerdermittel-fuer-Tor-F-Droid-und-Let-s-Encrypt-10328226.htmlMastodon
