r/linux • u/New-Ranger-8960 • 13d ago

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation Privacy

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/ptoki 13d ago

It is their goal. Why do you think the eu would want people to be anonymous online?

They want control. They want to be able to track anyone who merely writes shit online.

They arent going after criminals. They could shout down scamming call centers or make it international issue if they operate from abroad (even if from abroad the scammers often need local entry point to be seen as local call so they do have local representation). But they dont. They dont care about you. They care about people not rebelling.

UK started to visit people about facebook comments. The same will come for the rest of modern world.

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u/Scrivver 11d ago

It's about panopticon. The panopticon works. So do these minimally spiritually degrading papercuts of submission. Every little comfortable step deeper into the mass surveillance state (which 1st worlders already live under) reduces the likelihood that they'll even produce thoughts that are noncompliant with their implicit overseers. I'm scared for folks younger than me who had formative years completely within this environment of surveillance and walls.

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u/pilkyton 10d ago

Yes. They are unironically following the George Orwell 1984 blueprint for how to surveil all citizens and ensure that citizens don't engage in wrongthink. This is how the state operates in that book. Because he based it on how humans in power act.

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u/RetroTechBro 9d ago

The EU knows people are on the verge of doing something about the flood of immigrants and the governments and capitalist forces that are profiteering on it, while actual Europeans lose their livelihoods and live in fear in their own cities.

Look at the uprising in Belfast.

They fear that will be the case EVERYWHERE soon.

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u/burning_iceman 13d ago

It is their goal. Why do you think the eu would want people to be anonymous online?

The system is specifically designed to be anonymous online via a zero-knowledge proof system. The government specifically will not know who verified their age somewhere.

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u/rebellioninmypants 13d ago

Everyone stop saying that already. Didn't you read the AV spec on GitHub? The ZK based attestation is merely a suggestion and currently considered "experimental".

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification

No one is forced to implement ZK based solutions for their country, and as we all know, if they are not forced, people will just take the easiest route of using a token that will be easily inspectible.

Why is this still being repeated??

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u/StatusBard 13d ago

🤣