Well, captchas seem likely to become useless in the near future, and are currently a key feature used to prevent unwanted bot activity on many if not most websites. What can replace them?
Would this technology work better if there were a coalition of attesters that granted access to newer and smaller browsers and os makers?
The point of the attestation is to show that given browser won’t do some things. If the browser is open source on open source operating system the user can modify it in any way he wants, so not such attestation can be given to such browser.
Even if we are ok with attested browser being official builds never modified by users, then user could still fake it if they have full control of their operating system. So the operating system must also be attested, so it cannot be freely modified. And what is a point of open source then? You can see, but you cannot touch?
Well, captchas seem likely to become useless in the near future, and are currently a key feature used to prevent unwanted bot activity on many if not most websites. What can replace them?
Would this technology work better if there were a coalition of attesters that granted access to newer and smaller browsers and os makers?
The point of the attestation is to show that given browser won’t do some things. If the browser is open source on open source operating system the user can modify it in any way he wants, so not such attestation can be given to such browser.
Even if we are ok with attested browser being official builds never modified by users, then user could still fake it if they have full control of their operating system. So the operating system must also be attested, so it cannot be freely modified. And what is a point of open source then? You can see, but you cannot touch?
Nothing. Nothing should replace them.
You, as a website, unconditionally have zero right to know anything about what a user is doing on their computer.
Block behavior, not devices.
How can the attester attest that a bot is not using a valid browser on a valid os?