Nah you can totally trust me, I’m too lazy to do anything nefarious
Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
The problem is not the system or the idea of age verification
The problem is that no one on earth can be trusted with that level of monitoring, control and power.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
original_reader@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Wait until you have that power and you’re made offers that are hard to resist.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Great! … the solution to our problems … let’s all trust edgemaster72
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Oh, oh shit, this has backfired massively, I didn’t think anyone would go along with it
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This is precisely what the chosen one would say!
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 hours 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.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.