Post #1676124 · Elektrine

2026-04-16 11:30 UTC

I’m sorry, but have you read the technical documentation? The design is intentional created this way to avoid tracking. You are issued a set of ZKP tokens that you hand back to websites. They cannot correlate these tokens back to you, nor can the operator of the system. Now they could lie, of course, and violate the design (but being open source that’s a little harder), but if the government wanted to secretly track you, much more precise tools exist for this already.

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@Nalivai@lemmy.world 2026-04-16 14:11

That's the stupid part, it doesn't matter what it will look like at the beginning. It might be the best written documentation now, they can even implement the app correctly. The thing is, the jump from "people can use the internet" to "in order to access the internet you need to provide your government ID to your smartphone" is a big jump, one that can cost a politician career. The jump from "you need to use version 1.4.412 of the govenment id checker" to "you need to use version 2.0 of the Government Id Checker Plus" is minuscule. That's where you introduce a persistent database of the tokens, somewhere on page 5 of the changelog. And only nerds care about that and nobody listens to them. It's so fucking easy, Russia did this exact gambit in 2017, Kazakhstan couple of years before.

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@matlag@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-16 12:38

At last a piece of code free of any flaw, any exploit, invulnerable to any known or unknown attack method!

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