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Privacy Guides<p>We all know services that require authentication can correlate your activity on that service with your account. This becomes particularly dangerous when that account is linked with payment information that could potentially link back to your real identity.</p><p>It doesn't have to be this way though: The Privacy Pass protocol presents a path forward for "blind" authentication, if more services adopt it. Our team member @fria walks us through how it works:</p><p><a href="https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/21/privacy-pass/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">privacyguides.org/articles/202</span><span class="invisible">5/04/21/privacy-pass/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/PrivacyPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivacyPass</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/Anonymity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anonymity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/PrivacyGuides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivacyGuides</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/tags/Article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Article</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p>Today, there's a cool remote attestation technology called "<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/PrivacyPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrivacyPass</span></a>" that replaces <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/CAPTCHAs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CAPTCHAs</span></a> by having you prove to your own device that you are a human. When a server wants to make sure you're a person, it sends a random number to your device, which signs that number along with its promise that it is acting on behalf of a human being, and sends it back. CAPTCHAs are all kinds of bad - bad for accessibility and privacy - and this is really great.</p><p>49/</p>