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 threadwojtekFeb 19
@fluffykittycat I don't know what "your country" is (UK?) but last I checked majority of "western world" runs uncesored. Care to elaborate without using vocabulary that you seem to not grasp completely?
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatFeb 19
@wojtek age verification deanonimized people and in the USA, ICE is functionally above the law, explicitly profiling activists, and is building out concentration camps. None of these systems are gonna e built to use zero knowledge proofs because that would defeat the point. Discord switched from on-device AV to a theil company
Show threadwojtek
@fluffykittycat again, just because usania is a circurs run by oligarchs doesn't mean other solutions are bad/incorrect 🤷‍♂️
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