Yeah as far as i am aware, there is no such thing as zero-knowledge proof in practice for this kind of thing. If there are “bad actors” in other words “the police” with access to both the government database and (through a warrant or backdoor) the websites data, then the whole anonymization is gone. Its a sandcastle concept and an attempt to trick the population by making it sound fancy when its not at all.
ZKP has a specific meaning in cryptography. In fairness, it does a little here. But yes, it is basically a marketing term. Like “blockchain” or whatever.
Eventually, the idea here is to divide the population into 2 classes, one of which is to be denied access to certain information or services. If privacy is the only potential problem one sees with that, then… well…
Well yeah the inherent absurdity of age verification itself is a whole separate topic, but i think that battle is already kind of lost sadly. Our societies are so overobsessed with safety, there is no way they will not fall for the whole protect the children shtick.
Yeah as far as i am aware, there is no such thing as zero-knowledge proof in practice for this kind of thing. If there are “bad actors” in other words “the police” with access to both the government database and (through a warrant or backdoor) the websites data, then the whole anonymization is gone. Its a sandcastle concept and an attempt to trick the population by making it sound fancy when its not at all.
ZKP has a specific meaning in cryptography. In fairness, it does a little here. But yes, it is basically a marketing term. Like “blockchain” or whatever.
Eventually, the idea here is to divide the population into 2 classes, one of which is to be denied access to certain information or services. If privacy is the only potential problem one sees with that, then… well…
Well yeah the inherent absurdity of age verification itself is a whole separate topic, but i think that battle is already kind of lost sadly. Our societies are so overobsessed with safety, there is no way they will not fall for the whole protect the children shtick.