I'd feel 100% differently about this stuff if the NSA or some other cybersecurity gov arm making these rules used their massive cybersecurity budgets to provide free MFA, TLS, encrypted DNS, etc., whether US gov hosted or via non-profit (?) partners like LetsEncrypt.
OSS & free software otherwise has a huge vendor tax to actually get used. As is, this feels like economic insecurity & anti-competition via continued centralization to a small number of megavendors. Rules like this should come with money, and not to primes & incumbents, but utility providers.
Sure, our team is internally investing in building out a lot of this stuff, but we have security devs & experience, while the long tail of software folks use doesn't. The gov sets aside so much $$$$ for the perpetual cyber war going on, but not for simple universal basics here :(
I'd feel 100% differently about this stuff if the NSA or some other cybersecurity gov arm making these rules used their massive cybersecurity budgets to provide free MFA, TLS, encrypted DNS, etc., whether US gov hosted or via non-profit (?) partners like LetsEncrypt.
OSS & free software otherwise has a huge vendor tax to actually get used. As is, this feels like economic insecurity & anti-competition via continued centralization to a small number of megavendors. Rules like this should come with money, and not to primes & incumbents, but utility providers.
Sure, our team is internally investing in building out a lot of this stuff, but we have security devs & experience, while the long tail of software folks use doesn't. The gov sets aside so much $$$$ for the perpetual cyber war going on, but not for simple universal basics here :(