Dear all,
Does anyone feel like responding to a (friendly) journo request on the
CRA for German newspaper Tagesspiegel? Deadline for comment/interview is
Wednesday.
Please say yes to the list to that others know you are taking it.
Thank you!
Jan
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Subject: Comments for article on Cyber Resilience Act [Wednesday]
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:24:00 +0200
From: Maximilian Henning <max(a)maxhenning.eu>
To: shubham.kaushik(a)edri.org
Hi Shubham,
Maximilian here. I'm currently writing an article for Tagesspiegel
Background on the Cyber Resilience Act passing through it's last hurdle
yesterday and am looking for comments. In case EDRi has any opinions on
the CRA, I'd be happy to include them in my piece, especially regarding
a few questions:
1. What do you think will be the effect of the CRA?
2. Are there any changes you still would have liked to see in the law?
3. How well do you expect enforcement in the member states to work?
4. Do you think there will be any upcoming conflicts?
5. Is there any topic adjacent to the CRA that you would like to see the
EU become active on?
In case you do have any comments, I'd be glad about a response until
Wednesday.
Looking forward to your answer,
Maximilian Henning
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Dear CRA list members,
We are currently cleaning out our 50+ EDRi mailing lists and I have been
wondering if this list is one of those that can be closed. Please let me
know if that sounds OK for you or whether you would like to keep this
channel to continue exchanging info about the CRA.
If I hear no objections *by Monday, 21 October*, I will proceed to close
this list.
Thanks!
Jan
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Hi all,
Sorry this list has fallen silent a bit. The final CRA is going to be
approved in Plenary soon and I as wondering if we all agree with what
most of the FOSS community has said about the result: that it is OK.
I understand it's not great and in particular wrt security updates we
would have wanted more, but is it correct to tell people who ask that
we're generally rather supportive of the CRA as it has been agreed, or
at least that we don't have any major issues with it?
Thanks for any issues you'd like to flag!
Jan
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Dear all,
As you have not doubt noticed, there has been less engagement on the
Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) from EDRi office side these past weeks. The
first reason is that in order to stem the attention required for the
*large number of policy processes Jan is currently following* (DMA and
DSA enforcement, Health Data Spaces, Net Neutrality and EDRi IT needs).
In addition to our workload, there is a *larger number of stakeholders
working on CRA compared to other pieces of legislation*, especially in
the areas of free software exemption, vulnerability handling, and
security patch periods... Because of both reasons, we decided to
de-prioritise our work on the CRA for the time being.
Jan will participate in one last speaking event on a Microsoft-led panel
on vulnerability handling on Thursday morning at 9am and then *he will
be on parental leave in November and December*. In the meantime, please
contact me directly for any immediate questions or actions EDRi should
be involved in regarding the CRA.
Once Jan is back from his leave in January, and following the (upcoming
EDRi) office and EDRi network discussions on the EDRi office 2024 work
plan, we can re-discuss what kind of priority we can allocate to this file.
I hope this will work for you. Jan and I thank you for your
understanding for this kind of difficult decisions. Any feedback is of
course most welcome!
Best regards,
Diego
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Dear all,
Vrijschrift to Dutch Parliament: EU Cyber Resilience Act will harm competitiveness
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) proposal aims to make products containing software and software itself more secure. [1] This objective is endorsed by Vrijschrift. The Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate has written to the Senate that concerns regarding open source software have been “extensively addressed” by means of a recital. However, recitals do not have independent legal force; the amendments of the Council of the EU are ineffective. The CRA, if adopted in this form, will seriously harm the open source ecosystem and the competitiveness of the European economy.
https://www.vrijschrift.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/262-Vrijschrift…
kind regards,
Ante
On 09-05-2023 11:34, Jan Penfrat (EDRi) wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> I have only skimmed the Danti report
> <https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/ITRE-PR-745538_EN.pdf> so
> far, but here is my first impression. I'm also CC'ing PI, Epicenter and
> Vrijschrift.org to get their views.
Dear Jan,
Thank you, will try to dive into this between now and the Belgrade GA.
Regards,
Walter
P.S. There is a mailinglist for the CRA now (see cc)