Its a cryptographic way of verifying something without having to expose the information it’s verifying.

Lets say you need to prove you’re over the age of 18

You can have a digital ID that has your birthdate on it.

Through some fancy cryptographic stuff I can’t explain, the website could challenge your ID to prove your age, and the ID could return a response that proves you are over 18, but it doesn’t need to actually give your name or age in response, and it’s response isn’t something that can be linked back to your ID.

Now simply having an ID isn’t necessarily enough, kids could just take someones ID, so it might need to have some biometic’s added and be a small piece of hardware that has the digital ID, so when the website challenges the ID, you unlock the ID with your fingerprint, and now the website knows the owner of that ID is the user of the ID, and they are 18 or older.

For this to work though you’d need someone who has authority on your age to implement the digital ID properly, and then write the software that will validate things.

So you could go to the DMV as an example, they issue you a license while you’re there, you authenticate the ID with your finger print (but they DMV doesn’t get your fingerprint, it’s just stored on the ID) and then the website can challenge the ID and get a response that verifies you’re old enough, without verifying who you are, or your age.

Edit: just to add, and ID like this wouldn’t be limited to online. You could go to the liquor store and validate without them having to see your ID which exposes where you live for example.

This could all be solved with some zero knowledge proof technology so they can just prove your age and gain absolutely no tracking capabilities, but of course that will never happen.

It was a joke.

There are no hurricane when there’s nothing to predict them. It’s just a storm. There’s no covid because we don’t test for it.

WTF is a hurricane? It’s just a storm, get over it.

They’re willing to deport a fucking veteran who took two bullets for his country, they’ll deport anyone, including YOU.

Pure unadulterated evil.

Ya, like maybe let’s build some ammo manufacturing capacity (as an example) instead of just buying it all out of country.

So 5% seems like a lot… but we have definitely been under spending for awhile and could use some catch up, and 1.5% of that is earmarked for infrastructure, so maybe we’ll at least get something useful to everyone and not just the military out of that extra 1.5%. Like a port doesn’t necessarily have to be a military port, but the infrastructure could be used by the military if needed. Unless they really mean that has to be a military port, in which case, meh.

Long term though that seems a bit bonkers.

Edit: also were going to need to spend a lot of money on arctic stuff as global warming proceeds, at least in the mid-term. I bet a lot of it will go into that.

Edit: just another example, a high-speed rail connecting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City could be part of that. It would allow the military to deploy around the region much faster. Spend some money on some special high speed military train cars as well to help make the point.

It never occurred to me that authors would do that, but of course they would.

Breaking News from RFK Jr: 100% of people who have Autism and have this shot, had this shot! It was the shot!

“Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration”

Except… you dropped those bombs on a facility designed to be protected from those very specific bombs.

Next up:

Police officer wearing bullet proof vest obliterated by 9mm subsonic round. “Everyone knows what happens when you get shot! Death!”

Police Officer: uhhh hey I’m still alive here.

And then the Trump will invade Iran to open it citing it must remain open.