I think the EU has been handed a lot of opportunity but they still need to seize it. I would like to see EU alternatives to the major American sites (google, instagram, tiktok, whatsapp, etc.)
However, while the EU appears to be the good guy in this case, it is also notoriously anti-encryption (as is the UK), and these economies are also notoriously difficult/bureaucratic to start businesses in, so my hopes are not high for Europe's resurgence as a global technology leader. Without changes, I think Europe's best ambition will be self-reliance rather than projecting global soft power through owning the means of internet publishing
I agree with you on the anti-encryption stuff. Thankfully, so far, there has been enough pushback from civil society to prevent anything too bad from happening.
Historically, _the EU as an institution_ doesn't have a particularly coherent view on encryption; the EC periodically tries to push anti-encryption stuff but gets slapped down by the parliament and/or ECJ.
(This happens particularly _visibly_ due to the EU's weird structure. In most democratic states, there are consequences for the executive trying to do things that the parliament is definitely not going to allow them to do (in some parliamentary systems failure by the executive to get something through tends to result in the executive becoming an ex-executive), so if the executive has something it doesn't think it can get through, it keeps quiet about it; it may talk about it in private but is unlikely to risk a defeat by parliament. In the EU system, there are no consequences, so you do tend to see the EC pushing things that have little realistic chance of getting through the parliament quite often.)
Yeah I guess the EU is too broad to comment on bureaucracy, but for core markets like Germany and France, I've seen lots of discussion on HN from people who started businesses there. The consensus was that there's a lot of red tape, but that there are a lot of Pros to starting a business in the EU as well.
Yeah, I would definitely steer clear of Germany and France for starting the business. Thankfully, the Estonian option gives you easy access to the Single Market without worrying about all that :)
Vulnerability database is a great example of something that should be IMO democratized, blockchain-based or otherwise, and never allowed to be politized/militarized/weaponized, as in the end, there's vast potential for ordinary citizens to suffer if it ever happened.
The opportunity is there not only for the EU, but pretty much anyone who demonstrates good will/intent. I hope we end up with a consensus on something that won't be abusable by individual countries
If Putin or Xi were installed as President, it’s difficult to see what we’d be doing differently in respect to foreign and economy policy other than our sanctions directly and tariffs directly on them.
Microsoft has 780 pages of vulnerabilities, Linux has 203 and Apple had 258 pages when filtering by vendor.
I tried to just filter Windows or MacOS by product but that seems to be broken.
> To avoid efforts duplication and to support complementarity, ENISA closely cooperates with MITRE ... ENISA offers vulnerability registry services after its onboarding as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), with a focus on vulnerabilities in IT products discovered by or reported to European CSIRTs for coordinated disclosure.
Yeah my 1st thought was "oh that escalated so quickly!" - but then noticed the dates, which well is consistent since the EU usually doesn't move that fast.
I always thought there's more to that than simply, you know, moving and breaking. If there any other (intermediate?) results I'm still waiting on them to be shared.
