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>>pabs3+(OP)
A good and measured article marred only by a silly, clickbait title.

Unless there is a plan to allow attesters that are independent bodies then this is absolutely a threat to the open internet, or what's left of it.

The biggest dead canary for me is the lack of calling this out explicitly by Google or Apple. We're left to assume that Google is hand-wavingly saying "don't worry we can take care of that" when the private companies already monopolizing parts of the Internet are the absolute last people we want handling attestation.

>>Knobbl+c5
What is wrong when walking into a web shop with disclosing how much money you earn and may be able to part with?

>>heisen+G8
It terrifies me that I'm actually unsure whether this comment is sarcastic.

>>smeej+Z9
Rest assured it is sarcastic. It is terrifying because you start sensing what power shift that is. And it is not theoretical in the slightest, my wife starts complaining about dynamic pricing in web shops where she used to find deals at seasons end.

Or what is wrong with meeting politicians what have always a very good brief in their hands telling them what words have maximum impact on the small group before them? It seems to work looking at the increasing number of spineless chameleons.

>>heisen+0l7
I think for me it's terrifying because it sounds like the same line of reasoning as, "Why should I care about encryption? I don't have anything to hide," and people say (and mean) that a LOT.

So many people genuinely don't understand what would be wrong with this scenario, and that's why I'm afraid.