When Lawyers and Politicians Ignore Cybersecurity Experts … Bad Things Could Happen, eg Mass Surveillance

When it comes down to it, lawyers and politicians often don’t quite understand technology. For example, for them to properly understand how the digital trust of the Internet works, it would possibly involve an extensive training course on public key encryption, the implementation of the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and the usage of digital certificates.

Unfortunately, many cybersecurity professionals struggle to explain the basic operation of the PKI, and so there’s possibly little chance of law-makers having any real understanding of how the trust of the Internet is actually implemented. And, with this lack of knowledge, decision-makers can end up making the wrong choices in the laws they law down — and thus break down five decades of advancement.

eIDAS 2.0

While many countries of the world have struggled the scale digital identity into a tokenized world, the EU has blazed a trail in supporting e-ID and the usage of eIDAS 2.0 for digital signatures. This will hopefully break down the barriers towards a frictionless digital trading infrastructure and put digital identity and digital signing at the core of building a world which supports the freedom of movement of trade and people across the EU.