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> age verification for the users. Do you need to verify your age to perform a Google search? I think "age verification" is just another "think of the children" ploy to force all we…

> children can not enter a library and get Adult books Is that true? Can a 13 year old child in Italy not walk into their local town library and pick a novel off the shelf and star…

I'm glad you agree that knowing someone's name, age, and address doesn't prove their trustworthiness, because I don't want trust decisions to be dependent on threats of state-backe…

The first step in solving the trust problem is solving the identity problem. At the very least, once you've got cryptographic identities for entities involved in your supply chain,…

Isn't this just like the situation in 2014 where academics were arguing that 'gain-of-function' experiments were dangerous[0], but big government labs and pharma companies were too…

> Sure and they'll be quickly mistrusted. You can't really revoke DNNSEC trust of an ccTLD operator. But you don't have to, because the blast radius is so much smaller, and the inc…

> DNSSEC, ... still does not work in most TLD and registers. I'd be interested to know where you get your data from. By my count, there are 142 ccTLDs that support it and 106 that …

Trusting the country that operates the ccTLD of your website is a much better situation than having to trust all the countries that have CAs operate in them. A malicious CA in one …

People used HTTPS before there were Certificate Transparency logs, so there's no reason why those couldn't be run for DNSSEC too. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-zhang-…

Do you think that the state shouldn't be allowed to kill unwanted Down syndrome babies after they are born because "that's eugenics"? What about Down syndrome adults, who are relia…

> If something else with the right properties comes along then we'll adopt it Have you looked at DID-SIOP?[0] It's based on the "Self-Issued OpenID Provider" extension[1] to OpenID…

(Congrats on item ID number 35 million, by the way. It's kind of poetic that your comment has the string "000" in it.)

"Controlling the output of generative AI technology is simple. We will create context for its use. First we will censor any use related to social taboos. Then we will censor anythi…

> Are they going to outlaw electronics knowledge? No, but they might ban "bespoke" devices.[0] Maybe you're smart and brave enough to build and maintain your own illegal device, bu…

Except the EU is pushing for chat client interoperability[0], and side-loading[1], so everyone should be able to switch to open source apps that don't have this Kafkaesque "your gu…

> the leading cause of death for children under 18 is car crashes. Are you sure about that? In the US, firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of death among people aged …

The reason why DRM has failed in the past is that it only takes one person to crack the DRM on their own device, and then they have an unencumbered digital file which can be copied…

It was a good discussion, and I'm glad we've both had a chance to give our points of view clearly. :-) Thanks for discussing respectfully, and for the work it sounds like you are d…

> Even with attestation you could just daisy chain and use the attesting device as a proxy. But you'd need the attested device to run the proxy server software, which would obvious…

> The absolute size of the risk is what's relevant. But you weren't talking about the absolute size, you said "a very small problem compared to things like" (my emphasis). Please a…

Thanks for the link. That does seem to be a more thorough analysis than the one in Scientific American, although the latter was good at linking through to the actual studies, so yo…

Presumably mobile networks will be required to only grant internet service to phones that were bought in the UK (or that have been registered with a foreign network for more than N…

There are some good arguments in here, but I think it misses the broader picture. Clearly someone at GCHQ has told the UK government that if they want to ban secure apps like Signa…

> Shootings ... are a very small problem compared to things like ... car crashes, and tiktok. That's an interesting claim. Perhaps you didn't know that "Firearms now exceed motor v…