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The US just revoked the SSL certificates of Iranian banks to enforce sanctions. It feels like a tactical win, but it’s a massive strategic blunder. By weaponizing the internet’s core infrastructure, the US is forcing nations to build independent networks, blinding US intelligence and fracturing the global internet forever.
Google’s plan to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification looks like a humanitarian move, but it’s actually a dangerous normalization of digital borders. By creating two tiers of developers—verified and unverified—based on passport, not trust, the company is admitting that the open internet is dead. The real story is about tech companies becoming enforcers of state policy, carving the web into compliance zones.