Mullvad VPNFeb 17

The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.

A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.

Show threadKirill ChernyshovFeb 17
@mullvadnet curious timing. just about an hour ago I forged and verified my first zero knowledge proof that can tell the verifier that proof holder was born before a certain timestamp (aka. older than N years) at the same time reveling absolutely (!) nothing about proof holders, not even those who authorize it.
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatFeb 17
@dotfox @mullvadnet why are you working on tech to help the Nazis?
Show threadwojtekFeb 18
@fluffykittycat @dotfox @mullvadnet do you even grasp what "Nazi" is and what it entails?
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatFeb 18
@wojtek yes, they've taken over my country and are censoring the internet
Show threadKirill ChernyshovFeb 19
@fluffykittycat @wojtek This is a privacy tool - it protects people, not targets them. The whole point is that no one in the chain can be identified. A regime can't build a list of "undesirables" from a system that provably reveals nothing about who holds a credential. That's the opposite of what surveillance states want. Privacy tech exists precisely so that power can't be abused against individuals.
Show threadwojtekFeb 19

@dotfox @fluffykittycat "vpn is a privacy tool" must be one of the dumbest takes ever (thank you nordvpn for pushin that dumb narrative).

you literally funnel all you traffic via single hole and in the same breath claims that "noone can identify you"… like "XD"

Show threadKirill ChernyshovFeb 19
@wojtek what are you talking about? I'm not building vpn nor claiming it is a privacy tool.
Show threadwojtek
@dotfox shortcircuited the thread =,= and assumed "privacy tool" was about mullvad :D
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