alt Hacker NewsNo, the problem is foreign companies. Foreign nations have interests and as a US citizen I want to only trust other US citizens with my security, so should any other citizen anywhere else e.g. India can rely on India.
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As a US citizen, I don't love this mindset. The US has relatively lax rules around cybersecurity and consumer protection. Some other countries are even worse. Furthermore, I continue to participate in a relatively borderless global Internet. Unconditionally placing identity politics ahead of those realities is a strange and impractical choice for a great many people.
There are good and bad operators everywhere. It's naive to think they follow along nationalistic lines.
> only trust other US citizens with my security
I'm not sure what you mean, but this doesn't seem to be a coherent concept.
I just had a horrifying vision of a world where we have to purchase separate certificates from local certificate authorities in each country where we want to make a website available. shudder
Millions of non-US citizens (foreign workers in the country and outsource workers) build American software. Too bad :doge:
Is it paranoia, stupidity, or ignorance? I really hope it's the last one. Suggested Google prompt: “How does WebPKI work; explain to a US-citizen ONLY by an US-citizen".
So if you want to visit an Indian website, your browser should say "no! US websites only!"?
So you'll be getting rid of Firefox, Chrome, Edge, etc.? All of which have non-USCs working on security code in their browsers?
And what about when you, as a US citizen, are in India?
> only trust other US citizens with my security
Can't use a computer then.
> as a US citizen I want to only trust other US citizens with my security
man fox news has really done a number on people's brains.....
I can't believe sibling commenters. As a citizen of country X, it should be easy to sympathize with the desire to only do business with other citizens of country X or businesses registered in country X. Why? Because if they wrong me in some way, then I can sue them in a court of law in country X.
All cross-border business is fundamentally import/export and comes with the same risk - that when I am wronged by someone in another country, I have no legal recourse. The exceptions to this rule (like airlines) are such enormous exceptions that there are literally international treaties (e.g. Montreal Convention) to enable it.
Nothing fundamentally US-centric about that point of view.