Re:Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
by palata on Saturday May 09, 2026 @06:12PM
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> Moreover, collusion between the government and the entity making the age check can also theoretically deanonimize.
Hmmm... no? That's not how zero knowledge works.
Re:Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
by Arch-TK on Sunday May 10, 2026 @10:32PM
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Not via breaking the ZKP, but via other methods of fingerprinting, which governments are very well positioned to enable.
Re:Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
by palata on Monday May 11, 2026 @06:24AM
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I feel like it becomes bad faith at some point. With a sufficiently advanced attack, you can be personally identified today. ZKP for age verification does not make this worse, does it?
It's a bit like saying "no but Signal is not really encrypted, because the government can extract some metadata by looking at the network around the server".
The problem is that while you might be able to trust the crypto, the government won't trust you to do the crypto entirely by yourself. And this introduces avenues for deanonymisation. Moreover, collusion between the government and the entity making the age check can also theoretically deanonimize.
It's a complicated problem.
We continue to seek a technological solution to a parenting problem.