alt Hacker NewsOverall "more verification" goes in the direction of "more surveillance".
The author described a narrow path that provides "kid safety in the internet" without sacrificing the general population privacy.
Is it technically possible to implement the way he suggests? Yes. Will it be implemented that way? No.
There are people who can affect the way this verification will be implemented who are genuinely interested in more surveillance, heck, remember chat control that is an ongoing fight in a very similar vein, there is a global desire in politicians to get more control over the communications.
To me the author seems either naive or straight up malicious.
> Is it technically possible to implement the way he suggests? Yes.
I actually don’t think it is. Fundamentally this kind of certificate is going to be revocable. It’s untenable politically to hand out irrevocable attestations that can be handed off to minors. If you allow that, the system has failed to prevent minors from accessing adult materials, and if you don’t then the system has failed to preserve privacy.
> To me the author seems either naive or straight up malicious.
I think just naive.