protocols

Opacity

@androidsixteen.eth seems like @cdixon.eth  sees understanding the historic dynamics of Internet companies is how you can predict how things play out.

If the zkTLS thesis (admittedly not fully validated yet) plays out how I’ve been yelling about, then it represents a black swan primitive.

It introduces the possibility of forking existing web2 networks. It reduces down to a product problem:

Can you build something compelling enough to get a-lot of users to login and exfiltrate their data.

Theorem: Data availability and verifiability ensure the ability to fork networks (including existing web2 ones)

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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/eulerlagrange

Let me play red team for a moment. 

When web2 incumbents wake up to this existential threat to their business, what’s their strategy to destroy zktls?

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1. They can sue. As long as we uphold letting the user get their own data I’m confident a legal argument can be made it’s permissible.

If you were them, what would you do? Assume unlimited resources.

1. You can change the standardized protocol to be even more MPC unfriendly.

This would require buyin from all the standards bodies, browsers etc.

Would only happen if we had a lot of success and money. We have the morally superior position as well.

3. Apple and Android have a service where the hardware attests to a valid install of the app

It’s not widely adopted, but we could be the catalyst for adoption.

Our reverse engineers have cracked both of them.

Apple has taken a strong stance on privacy, and this stance makes this service weak. To make it harder to break you open the door to make it easier to track someone between apps.


For Android it requires Google services. There’s a recent case where Google is forced to allow other app stores (so is Apple). This makes it harder to enforce.

For Uber there’s a fallback mechanism that our engineers found. They wouldn’t put that there if they didn’t have to

2. You can change the APIs frequently

But we could potentially throw AI at it to automate a lot of the tracking