technology

24259 readers

364 users here now

On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020

Rules:

1. Obviously abide by the sitewide code of conduct. Bigotry will be met with an immediate ban
2. This community is about technology. Offtopic is permitted as long as it is kept in the comment sections
3. Although this is not /c/libre, FOSS related posting is tolerated, and even welcome in the case of effort posts
4. We believe technology should be liberating. As such, avoid promoting proprietary and/or bourgeois technology
5. Explanatory posts to correct the potential mistakes a comrade made in a post of their own are allowed, as long as they remain respectful
6. No crypto (Bitcoin, NFT, etc.) speculation, unless it is purely informative and not too cringe
7. Absolutely no tech bro shit. If you have a good opinion of Silicon Valley billionaires please manifest yourself so we can ban you.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

context@hexbear.net

SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net

gaycomputeruser@hexbear.net

Wakmrow@hexbear.net

SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net

The Age Verification Trap (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 1 day ago by git@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So... the SSN. Like no matter what, the system you're proposing is going eventually piggy backed on as a convenient system of proving someone is who they are, like the SSN was despite all the problems with it.

[–] DasRav@hexbear.net 1 points 19 hours ago

The process I have written would be:

You generate a key from a website run by the government
you give the key to whatever service you want to verify your age on
the service asks the government website "Is this a valid code you generated?"
The government website responds with yes/no and then invalidates the key so it cannot be used a second time.

In this scenario, the service you need to validate your age on knows nothing about you except that you are of age and the government can, at most, log who made the request for validation for the key. You could also anonymize that step though, if privacy was an actual concern.

The process with your SSN is

you give the service your SSN
They save it and ask the government to verify it, thus allowing them to know who you are and where you live and leak that data in a data breach 6 months from now.
That's it, that's the process.

I don't think they are quite the same.