The Internet’s Trust Layer Is Being Nationalized. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet.
Seven Russian banks just migrated to a state-run certificate authority, giving the government the technical ability to intercept and decrypt all financial communications. This isn’t just a surveillance story — it’s the nationalization of the internet’s trust layer. The padlock still shows. The encryption still works. It just works for the state now, not for you. And other authoritarian governments are taking notes.