Optimistically, age can be verified without giving away identity. There are cryptographic methods for doing so. And I’m sure this is how the age verification mandate will initially be sold.
But after the populace gets used to the idea of age verification, the government can easily get rid of all the cryptography involved. “For the kids”
That’s very very optimistically. They won’t care a shit. Who understands cryptography enough to be swayed over to the bad side anyways? And those who do understand it, will most probably know that even if technically it could work, it won’t.
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.
They can’t stop funding genocide, but they can do this.
Another attack on device ownership if this leads to all-out firmware locks
Haha, look Ma! Fascism is everywhere!
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.
The comment you got downvoted for and that you link to says: ‘graphene is ending this September’.
You really should be waiting until September and until graphene os is actually shut down before acting as if you were correct with that statement.
What’s worse, that comment links to the Keep Android Open movement which specifically targets Google’s sideloading restrictions and it’s already known that they don’t apply to GrapheneOS. This is the specific reasoning behind my downvote. Whether there are any other threats to GrapheneOS is irrelevant since the comment in question doesn’t mention them and is backed by a false claim instead.
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.
