Comment by akersten
13 days ago
> If this pans out for them, as cryptographically it will but remains to be how vendors and implementations handle it at scale, then they can introduce voting from your phone — the previously-unattainable holy grail of modern democracy — precisely because it lets the government forcibly stop the cheating that device-to-app/web attestation solves. And they can do so without leaking your identity to election officials if they care to! Just visit a government booth once in a while to have your identity signature renewed (and any prior signatures issued to your identity revoked). That’s how digital wallet passports and ID cards work already today anyways, with their photo/video/NFC processes.
we've banned all graphic depictions from the internet, required a verified name attached to every blog post, and made sure to confirm everyone's digital passport before letting them resolve a DNS query, but at least now I can vote from me phone instead of having to go outside. The future is bright!
Yeah, this future sucks, and we’ve had twenty years to push back and utterly failed to do so. I’ve tried for years to interest people in learning about attestation so they can curb it before it swings hard authoritarian, but no one wanted to listen b/c Linux is about having root and anything that challenges that belief is anathema to consider. Welcome to the party, the sky is falling just as it has been for years; someone else can be the harbinger for a while, I’m tired of watching people try the same old arguments that have failed for years.