@fluffykittycat@furry.engineer
Post #1479754
2026-02-20 18:48 UTC
@dotfox "The age verification mandates are coming" because they're being pushed from on high. there's no reason we should accept this. why all of a sudden are we expected to hand over or IDs to use the internet? nothing good is intended here
furthermore, no one has ever rebutted the obvious flaw in any ZK-based system: how do you know that the ID belongs to the actual user and not someone handing out "Over 18" tokens en mass? I've asked this of people and no one's told me how they plan to stop this
discord promised up and down there were being super private and everything was all on device, and that lasted about a week and now your IDs go straight into Peter Thiel's ICE database. if we give in to "zero knowledge" how can we know that won't just happen?
no, we have to take a stand against this in it's totality
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@dotfox@mastodon.social 2026-02-20 19:40
@fluffykittycat How easy is it for you to get a fake identity that will be accepted as legit by some gov agency or even your local pub? My system does not reinvent the wheel here, it will be equally hard. But it solves a problem that to get to the pub you have to reveal your name, exact date of birth, address, etc. With this system, the verifier can't see that data even if they wanted to - it's never transmitted, not just "promised not to be stored".