> The business scaffolding around it is just wrong, I agree with that. It should be handled by non-profits or state-run organizations. You register a company, y

> The business scaffolding around it is just wrong, I agree with that. It should be handled by non-profits or state-run organizations. You register a company, you get a signing key. Validation and authentication should be done at source, not across an ocean by a 3rd party outsourced support calling a phone number published in 4th party business directory. This is as ass-backwards as it gets. +1 I would love if my local Chamber of Commerce could give me at a reasonable price the code signing key. It's supremely weird they have to power to create the legal entity but for the little code signing key I need to find somebody in a far away country to do it. I don't expect such a desire for state-run organizations from people in the US, but I'm surprised the whole of EU is fine with the status quo.