Which problems? As far as I can tell this solves zero problems for users of websites. Wanting to replace captchas with this is just another arms race that normal users will suffer from.
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Is there a way to address the problems outlined by the proponents of these technologies without placing too much power in anti-democratic and anti-user organizations like Apple and Google?
Overspark@feddit.nl 1 year ago
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Well, captchas seem likely to become useless in the near future, and are currently a key feature used to prevent unwanted bot activity on many of not most websites. What can replace it?
Jajcus@kbin.social 1 year ago
The point of the attestation is to show that given browser won't do some things. If the browser is open source on open source operating system the user can modify it in any way he wants, so not such attestation can be given to such browser.
Even if we are ok with attested browser being official builds never modified by users, then user could still fake it if they have full control of their operating system. So the operating system must also be attested, so it cannot be freely modified. And what is a point of open source then? You can see, but you cannot touch?
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How can the attester attest that a bot is not using a valid browser on a valid os?
YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s up to the attester to decide. Maybe it needs to run some verifications every so often. There’s nothing preventing it from refusing you attestation too, if your device is out of date, or is too old and won’t receive future updates
Jajcus@kbin.social 1 year ago
But the problem they try to solve is: user's device is not under full control of the service provider. The only solution to that problem is to take away the control from the device owner. You cannot have both.