So we come full circle. The government having the ability to impersonate a site is exactly what I believe must not happen.
If the EU wants to create search.eu or any other search site, more power to them. I certainly wouldn’t use it, but hey, if you want to trust them, you can.
If they want to block google search… Eeeeh… I guess that is fine?
But they shouldn’t be able to create a fake certificate for google.com or any site for that matter, not only allowing them to impersonate the site, but also intercept encrypted traffic between users and that site.
So no. Governments should not control the TLS infrastructure.
One of the reasons to create a domestic redirect of google.com
So we come full circle. The government having the ability to impersonate a site is exactly what I believe must not happen.
If the EU wants to create search.eu or any other search site, more power to them. I certainly wouldn’t use it, but hey, if you want to trust them, you can.
If they want to block google search… Eeeeh… I guess that is fine?
But they shouldn’t be able to create a fake certificate for google.com or any site for that matter, not only allowing them to impersonate the site, but also intercept encrypted traffic between users and that site.
So no. Governments should not control the TLS infrastructure.