Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 day agostored locally on your device
While I would trust that for a FOSS app, it would be too easy for a proprietary app to just “backup” your data.
With the physical method, everyone can be sure they are anonymous through common sense.
Kraiden@piefed.social 1 day ago
Sure, but I have 2 counterpoints:
There’s no reason the 3rd party app needs to be proprietary. This is starting to get technical, but my understanding is that you get a cert from the requester, and it’s the combination of that with the state issued magic cert that’s used for validation. The 3rd party app is essentially just a calculator. It doesn’t need any certs of its own
That’s an implementation detail. My argument is that it’s the implementation that’s the real cause for concern here, not the idea