Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nah you can totally trust me, I’m too lazy to do anything nefarious

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Great! … the solution to our problems … let’s all trust edgemaster72

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh, oh shit, this has backfired massively, I didn’t think anyone would go along with it

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This is precisely what the chosen one would say!

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  • original_reader@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wait until you have that power and you’re made offers that are hard to resist.

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• AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You definitely can do this with cryptography, it’s a really hard problem, but I worked in this space for a number of years, it’s possible.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Like I implied, the problem isn’t the HOW to do it.

    The problem is in giving any one person, government, corporation or company this amount of power and control.

    And because it’s so powerful, no one who had it would want to give up control by making it anonymous or in objectively protecting privacy for the user.

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    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Right, I understand that perspective, but there is a way to do this with multi-party computation and some other cryptography where no one would have the actual power/be able to see the data/have control. The main issue is it’s expensive to run and no one would be incentivized to run it.

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