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If it's a government app, you can pressure the government in many more way than you can let's say a bank - and FSF has experience in that kind of pressure. I ho
by franga2000 1y ago
If it's a government app, you can pressure the government in many more way than you can let's say a bank - and FSF has experience in that kind of pressure. I hope their technical initiative also comes with a parallel legal/policy initiative that tries to get governments to stop using things like attestation.
- ZoomZoomZoom 1y ago> If it's a government app, you can pressure the government in many more way than you can let's say a bank Many more, like? For an individual, almost none. I can boycott a bank (if it's not a government one), I can't boycott my own government, only leave. An organization can start an initiative, but without an interested party involved it's only an initiative, you can hardly call it "pressure".
- franga2000 1y agoYou can't boycott a bank, they all do the same shit and you need to have one. With a government, however, you can go through your MPs, use administrative procedures to lodge complaints, etc. They also don't have Visa/Mastercard forcing them into attestation, it's usually just because the contractor thought it made things More Secure™.