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Re:Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 min... by snackbroken on Monday April 20, 2026 @10:21AM (#47834793)
Precisely. To rate-limit attestations you either need government somewhere in the loop so that they get notified and can revoke certificates when they detect abuse (but then they can correlate requests to prove adulthood with the service provider), or you need the proof of adulthood to be tied to the certificate in some way that the service provider can tell if a certificate is being re-used. But then anyone with a copy of all the certificates (read: the government) can re-run the proof on their end and figure out who is who.
Re:Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 min... by atanasi on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @03:29AM (#47845656)
The app would be restricted to environments certified by Apple or Google. Then the app can apply features like trusted time to implement client-side rate limiting.