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Kazik24 commented on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection   spectrum.ieee.org/age-ver... · Posted by u/oldnetguy
maximus-decimus · 17 days ago
So you want porn on every web site and have kids prove that they're kids by issuing their school card (because they won't have a real id yet) so the porn get hidden for them or so they get entirely banned from the system?

Nobody's ever gonna show an id to get banned from a website.

Kazik24 · 17 days ago
Do you see porn on every website right now, since we don't have widespread verification yet? The internet was designed for adults from the start, only in recent years we got a significant portion of kids on it.

The thing is that if you are a kid, your device would be bought and signed by your parent, you have no way of refusing to show ID cause device does it automatically. Of course there is a problem that children could use parent's phone but that's also a way to circumvent current age verification propositions.

The idea is just to sign device once for a kid and let them use it without constant worry.

Kazik24 commented on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection   spectrum.ieee.org/age-ver... · Posted by u/oldnetguy
Kazik24 · 17 days ago
Shouldn't the verification be other way around? That is, you need to prove that you are a child. Then the site can present you more strictly filtered content. Parent can sign child's device on first boot, token stored in TPM so that it's hard to remove.

It's basically the same type of enforcement on sites, as they need to verify and filter content for children, or just block them. Most of the internet users are adults, why not make internet for adults by default.

Kazik24 commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott
YetAnotherNick · 7 months ago
QUIC or any other technology still needs domain name and both the domain name ownership and DNS could be blocked by governments. Also IP could be blocked.
Kazik24 · 7 months ago
There is DNS over QUIC, and in case your current Connection ID or IP is blocked during the connection, QUIC can use multiple IPs and CIDs for single connection, and CIDs are negotiated in encrypted part of packet. It's a mechanism for migrating connection over changing networks. Servers can also take advantage of that.

Server could have multiple QUIC output nodes to migrate connection in case one of them is blocked. The output node network can be shared by many servers and DoQ endpoints so blocking it entirely would scare government.

This solution still needs to connect to some known IP in order to establish connection first. And the same goes for DoQ. To mitigate this we can use Encrypted Client Hello as other commenter mentioned and connect to a pool instead of single IP.

Kazik24 commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott
chii · 7 months ago
> still have a unified internet across the globe.

which might be the end goal - the internet, with freedom of communication, is a way that the plebs can organize and resist authoritarianism. And as countries are growing increasingly authoritarian (and i include UK here), they may be planning on preventing the old free internet that has enabled so much.

So as technologists here at HN, there needs to be a pre-emptive strike to prevent such an outcome from becoming successful. I would have said TOR, but for most people it's a non-starter. What other options are there?

Kazik24 · 7 months ago
Applications based on QUIC and/or P2P might be an option. QUIC is designed to not be as easy to filter as TCP + TLS. But then right now it can be blocked by just blocking UDP. But if majority of the internet would use QUIC then blocking UDP would mean blocking most of the internet so the governments wouldn't be so eager do nationwide firewalls (hopefully).
Kazik24 commented on Ask HN: Will creative people have jobs in 10 years?    · Posted by u/noduerme
Kazik24 · 4 years ago
I think it's a matter of perspective. Creativity as an ability to create something new will always be relevant. At the core concept, creative ideas are just ideas, and something needs to translate them into the real world. Right now we are learning skills to do this. In the future, AI could do it for us.

In that case, there is an information bottleneck. If you, as a single entity, have an idea and skills needed to translate it, then internal communication in your brain is very fast. But when we as a creator have an idea and describe it to AI (or even other humans), there is some very lossy compression going on.

Creative jobs in 10 years will probably shift to focus more on being able to communicate those ideas well to "execution units" and back, so the skill to learn would be mapping some internal "mindset" of an AI to predict outcomes.

u/Kazik24

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