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Mozilla Wants to Distrust Dutch HTTPS Provider Because of Local Dystopian Law

Mozilla engineers are discussing plans to remove support for a state-operated Dutch SSL provider. A new law gives Dutch authorities the power to intercept Internet communications using “false keys”” Mozilla engineers fear that Dutch authorities will issue certificates through the local CA that will allow them to set up SSL proxies to carry out Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks on all users in a dragnet-like Internet surveillance operation. By distrusting the certificates

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