[Cryptography] Anonymous age verification

[Ian g]

On 16/07/2026 18:33, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 	That, however, creates pressure for mission creep. A number of other possible uses for
> 	CL credentials are given in [3], including opening bank accounts, employment verification,
> 	and vaccination certificates [29]; however, this is also a major point of social control,
> 	since it is possible to revoke a primary credential and with it all derived subcredentials
> 	[2]. Those who are disfavored by authoritarian governments may lose access not just to
> 	pornography, but to social media and all of these other services. (Of course, the need for
> 	such revocability can be a good thing, to cope with compromised credentials, lost or stolen
> 	devices, etc.)


How credulous are we? The Creep is the Mission - this is just the same 
old tricks they they always get up to, labelling their mass surveillance 
& control systems with some social cause.

In this case, "protect the children." But they could equally say that 
they need this to stop terrorism or defeat Iran or today's bogeyman and 
the same debates would be had, with us the wise proving that it won't 
work to stop the bogeyman and completely missing the point.

2005 by John Jonik 
https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/1nsnvqr/political_cartoon_by_john_jonik_2005/

It should perhaps also be noted that most of the Western/OECD 
governments are introducing roughly the same system at the same time. 
This is coordinated.

iang