On: Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

[orthoxerox]

Russia already has its own root CA, the issue is that state-owned root CAs are by definition not safe from MITM attacks by the same government.

[diimdeep → orthoxerox]

It is a lunacy, complete delusion to think that privately owned (by oligarchy) root CA that trusted by every web browser and OS on the planet is somehow superiorly safer from the point of state actor attack than those explicitly state owned root CA. You must be livin in fairyland.