Gregor "Little Detritus" Bransky
Tut Dinge mit digitalen Infrastrukturen von Freifunk über Gesundheitsämter, Registermodernisierung, digitale Identitäten und Build Pipelines.
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The Cyber Resilience Act is an EU regulation passed finally in October 2024 for improving cybersecurity and cyber resilience in the EU through common cybersecurity standards for products with digital elements in the EU.
Whilst most discussion are currently circling around the implications of the CRA and NIS2 for compliance in the cooperate world a more subtle but potentially more impactful aspect is overlooked.
This includes implications legal situation of security researchers, the more profound ones will probably impact software supply chains and the open source community.
One key indicator of voters turning towards populism and thus fashists is the feeling of a lack of perspective. Usually brought about by degrading infrastructure, the absence of infrastructure deemed to apropriate and loss in faith of institutions of democracy.
This can be understood as a motivation to engage in civic-tech as a form of anti fashist activism.
I will try to summarize what I learned in my five year long journey starting with the #wirvsvirus hackathon of the german gouverment in 2020 .