The EU age verification app is presented as “completely anonymous”. But the risk is that member states (the countries are supposed to create their own versions of the open-source EU app) use it to introduce identity verification that makes it impossible to post anonymously on social media.
The idea behind “completely anonymous” is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.
This means that the EU could decide at any time that ZKP may no longer be used, and in one stroke the app would fall back to its default mode, meaning that every post on social media carries an ID tag. By that point, an infrastructure will already have been rolled out; people will have gotten used to it, and it will be harder to roll it back.
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The 4th Amendment was supposed to prevent a surveillance state.
Yet we're surrounded by cameras, tracked by our phones, and surveilled without warrants.
It's not working.
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@esrtweet Hi Eric
We met when you gave the talk on the boat from Malmø in 2002.
10 days ago I sent an email to: <[email protected]>
Is that your current address?
Age verification for app stores in the EU will be voted behind closed doors in trilogue this Thursday. No press, no attention. This is how laws are made nowadays #eu#democracy
@marfus_valentin@MunterBamse Men *hvis* I har behov for fortrolighed, så ville jeg aldrig turde bruge Messenger: Jitsi, Signal, Session eller Briar ville jeg turde bruge.
@marfus_valentin@MunterBamse Jeg vil i hvert fald betragte en bug i serverkode som en mere sandsynlig forklaring: Måske er den pågældende server overbelastet og dette trigger en fejl, som kun sker i sjældne tilfælde og kun ved overbelastning.
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Just Microsoft things...
Recently they terminated the VeraCrypt developer's Microsoft account.
VeraCrypt is a free and open-source disk encryption software that performs on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) to create virtual encrypted disks, encrypt partitions, or secure entire storage devices.
@MunterBamse@marfus_valentin Jeg tror ikke på aflytning: Hvis jeg ville aflytte jer, så ville det ske som optagelse - aldrig med en person "live". Det ville være aaalt for dyrt.
Trivia: Det koster <10 kr i storageplads at gemme lydoptagelse af alle dine telefonsamtaler *resten af dit liv*.
@MunterBamse@marfus_valentin Jeg har hørt andre, der på Teams er røget i forkerte samtaler. Mit gæt er, at der er en bug i Teams-serverdelen, som i usædvanlige tilfælde får sat folk op i det forkerte Teams kald.
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🇰🇵 Call Kim Jong Un a “fat, ugly pig” to prove that you are not from North Korea
During a job interview at a U.S. IT company, a candidate was asked to call Kim Jong Un a “fat, ugly pig” to prove he wasn’t from North Korea. The candidate decided life was more important and walked out.
North Korean workers sometimes join U.S. companies remotely, then steal sensitive data or leave security vulnerabilities in the code.
Patent law should not operate in the silence and reclusion of a Trappist Monastry. EPO and big companies ignored the exclusion of plants and animals in the EPC, like they did for software?
GrapheneOS was founded in Toronto by a Canadian. GrapheneOS Foundation is a Canadian federal non-profit. Our lead developer is from Ukraine. Our non-profit has 3 directors: our founder, our lead developer and a long time project member from Kazakhstan.
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