There is also a separate governance limitation. Proof of Age providers are expected to issue credentials only to applications included in a list of compliant apps maintained by the European Commission. This means that publishing the source code does not automatically guarantee that a community-built version can use the real service.
This incompatible with GPLv3? Because pivotization not allowed anymore and this sound similar concept.
Another attack on device ownership if this leads to all-out firmware locks
They can’t stop funding genocide, but they can do this.
Haha, look Ma! Fascism is everywhere!
How does this initiative have anything to do with those who live outside the Fascist Union?
Are you asking obliviously , or rhetorically?
What’s the point of these links? I understand that age verification is a global trend, but I’ll ask again. How does this specific hardware attestation initiative has anything to do with non-EU citizens?
Because all the chip manufacturers will comply respectively as their markets will force them to implement these fascist hardware locks🔒. No buyers for freed chips, no market to sell molds to. This is the final piece🧩 to absolute fascist domination: all the capital is forced to play with the monopsonists.
It simply isn’t open source, if it does.
The full system includes ALL necessary components to perform a real age verification.
Mobile wallet, “identity provider” software, and all necessary hardware to run both.
The assumption with general purpose computing machines WAS that hardware didn’t matter, that’s why open source software could succeed. If it does matter, then of course the hardware needs to be open as well.
