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I know that I can simply make my own private certificate authority that only I and my family trust. But is there some public provider like letsencrypt that is in a free-er part of the world than the US?

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you don't know how bitwarden works, do you?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Nope, America bad! CIA has magic that let's them break modern encryption because they employ John Hackerman!

The amount of FUD in this thread is nuts, but I expect that from Internet people with very strong opinions about topics that theyre not particularly well informed on.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, "america" (specifically USA) bad, but that user has no idea bitwarden encrypts the password before sending it to the server.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I'm not going to argue the USA is good at all, but yeah that was my point. People are freaking out because of the FUD going around about the capabilities of spy agencies, and the basic lack of curiosity to understand something even on the most basic level.

Like honestly, people should be more worried about the owners of their browsers, since they actually can mark a certificate or chain as untrusted and have it mean something.