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Laws are only as strong as the enforcement can be. For commercial entities the government can go for financial or operational penalties to encourage compliance
by m-p-3 3y ago
Laws are only as strong as the enforcement can be.
For commercial entities the government can go for financial or operational penalties to encourage compliance, at least if they operate commercially in the country in question.
But for open-source web browsers, which might not have any commercial entities operating in the country, how could they even enforce that law?
There's nobody to punish, nobody to coerce.
- donmcronald 3y ago> But for open-source web browsers, which might not have any commercial entities operating in the country, how could they even enforce that law? They’ll put something like a WEI token outside of the encrypted payload and force ISPs to refuse transit for anything that’s not attested by the “good guys”.
- chopin 3y agoWhich encrypted payload?
- donmcronald 3y agoWeb traffic (https). Think of an “anonymized” attestation token in the same place as SNI.
- the8472 3y agoMuch simpler: They'll make WEI-verification mandatory for all government sites. And then banking. And then anyone doing commerce.