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Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”
Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.
If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?
(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)
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@aral @EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet Google and other large tech companies can also make up the difference, assuming they're funding it already. If not, they certainly should.
@AlesandroOrtiz @EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet I’d rather we (the EU, via our taxpayer money) had more of a role than Google for reasons I don’t believe I have to restate in 2025.
@aral @EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet Fair enough. As long as the same private companies that benefit from LE pay their fair share of taxes too, we're roughly on the same page.
These companies and their users benefit from a more secure web, so they should pay for that, directly or indirectly.
In this case, I also doubt private companies would let LE be abandoned since it requires active maintenance costs in servers, etc. (vs. open source software they use which generally doesn't have public/expensive external infrastructure).