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If it's a government app, you can pressure the government in many more way than you can let's say a bank - and FSF has experience in that kind of pressure. I hope their technical initiative also comes with a parallel legal/policy initiative that tries to get governments to stop using things like attestation.

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> If it's a government app, you can pressure the government in many more way than you can let's say a bank

Many more, like?

For an individual, almost none. I can boycott a bank (if it's not a government one), I can't boycott my own government, only leave.

An organization can start an initiative, but without an interested party involved it's only an initiative, you can hardly call it "pressure".

You can't boycott a bank, they all do the same shit and you need to have one.

With a government, however, you can go through your MPs, use administrative procedures to lodge complaints, etc. They also don't have Visa/Mastercard forcing them into attestation, it's usually just because the contractor thought it made things More Secure™.

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