The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by Geezus_42 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:43PM (#48680646)

Every government has been working on ways to identify and target individuals online since as long as the internet has existed. Governments are incentivized to continuously increase control. Why would you assume this is not yet another escalation towards their goal of being able to track and silence anyone who pushes back?

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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by bluefirebrand on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:28PM (#48680967)

I didn't comment at all on what the governments goals are

Edit: I agree with you 100%, but the fact that governments want to track people online has no bearing on how technically possible it is to build a system where they can't

An anonymous internet auth system (probably) won't get built, but it is possible to build

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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by Geezus_42 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:59PM (#48681866)

How is it possible to have something that both proves something about your identity but also does not allow ANYONE to deanonymize you?

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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by bluefirebrand on Friday June 26, 2026 @10:50AM (#48687327)

That's probably too high a bar anyways? It's not like we have that today either.

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Re:The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate yo... by Geezus_42 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @04:50PM (#48739010)

Possibly aspirational.

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