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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban] |
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Sun, 05 Sep 2021 23:09:06 -0400 |
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> As Jacob says, attributes always create ethical problems in
> anonymous authentication.
I could not follow Jacob's argument -- it was written in a sketchy way.
Unfortunately, that means I can't follow your point either.
The W3C’s DID and VC schemes expressly
> wants end users to prove things like education, employment status,
> residency, age, etc. It’s immediately clear this’ll be abused,
> say by employers wanting job applicants only from currently
> employed people.
That might be illegal in many countries. Besides which,
to distinguish characteristic C with a special taler token
depends on a bank to issue them which can tell whether you
have characteristic C.
> We should always encourage websites to not require any
> authentication for this reason, but..
I agree, but I'm telling you about government programs which
require these criteria, and enforce them digitally in a way
that also tracks what the person purchases.
Certainly we can disapprove of payment systems that cntrol who can buy
what, but we can't stop governments from imposing them.
> Anonymous authentications via ring VRFs permits the developer to
> specify exact control over this “context”, so like every users
> gets a different identity in each chat room and on each day or
> whatever. Although a downside is its a bit easier to add
> attributes besides ring membership.
I don't have the background to understand this, sorry.
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- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], (continued)
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Richard Stallman, 2021/09/07
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/09/08
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Richard Stallman, 2021/09/09
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/09/10
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/09/06
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Özgür Kesim, 2021/09/07
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Fabian Kirsch, 2021/09/07
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Schanzenbach, Martin, 2021/09/07
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/09/07
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Richard Stallman, 2021/09/07
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban],
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: [Taler] [address@hidden: 'Oh, that's an idea...': U.S. parents respond to China screen time ban], Christian Grothoff, 2021/09/04
- [Taler] caps are about currency not coins, Fabian Kirsch, 2021/09/06
- Re: [Taler] caps are about currency not coins, Sebastian Javier Marchano, 2021/09/06
- [Taler] age-restriction is about coins, not currencies, Özgür Kesim, 2021/09/06
- Re: [Taler] age-restriction is about coins, not currencies, Schanzenbach, Martin, 2021/09/06
- Re: [Taler] age-restriction is about coins, not currencies, Christian Grothoff, 2021/09/07
- Re: [Taler] age-restriction is about coins, not currencies, Schanzenbach, Martin, 2021/09/07
- Re: [Taler] age-restriction is about coins, not currencies, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/09/07
- Re: [Taler] age-restriction is about coins, not currencies, Schanzenbach, Martin, 2021/09/08