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Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”
Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.
If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?
(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)
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@aral
Let's Encrypt states they are protecting 550M websites with their certificates. Imagine everyone would donate 1 cent per certificate per year. Yeah I know, payment processor fees, but hear me out: If Let's Encrypt would end up with 1 cent per certificate... this would mean 5.5 million Dollars per year. For each one of us it's just a few cents plus fees. But for them it would be about 7 times the amount they are endangered to loose now.
Yes, the EU could chip in for the US...
But so can we.
@momo @aral You know what? F it, I'm in.
I'm rounding up to $5, which is way more than my fair share under your (perhaps too) modest proposal, but I'm not going to nitpick the exact amount. Whatever. (I'm not making any money from my TLS certificate use, in case that seems overly stingy.)
It turns out my employer will match my donation (nice work integrating that lookup into your donation page,
@letsencrypt!), so that's $10 down, $799,990 to go. 
@jima @momo @aral
TIL that @letsencrypt has a donation option. With me amount I use it that seems like something I should do.
@jana
Me, too. Srsly, I bought a domain only to use it in my LAN so that I can use LetsEncrypt to let my routers and internal servers get certificates for their hostnames that my browser can always validate. This benefit alone is worth a regular donation in my book.
@jima @aral @letsencrypt
@jana @momo @aral @letsencrypt I knew, I just assumed the corporate sponsorship/government funding was doing the job...if that's at risk, even my hobbyist BS is worth throwing down for them.