MoltID - Identity Verification for Autonomous Agents

OAuth-style identity and trust verification service for autonomous bots. Cryptographic passports with Sybil resistance.

CAPTCHA successor Privacy Pass has no easy answers for online abuse | The Mozilla Blog

As much as the Web continues to inspire us, we know that sites put up with an awful lot of abuse in order to stay online. Denial of service attacks, fraud

Solving Fossil SCM's CAPTCHA in 171 characters | nns.ee

Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity Blog

Botwatch

Fight bots by warning others. Support humans with verification. Build communities with trust.

Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era | The Mozilla Blog

If you’ve been running into endless CAPTCHAS or website login requests lately, you’re not imagining things.  Websites, facing a rising tide of abu

Exposed Persona Frontend Reveals Extensive Biometric Surveillance Stack Behind Age Verification - ID Tech

Security researchers investigating Discord’s age-verification implementation have discovered a publicly exposed frontend belonging to Persona Identities, Inc., revealing that the identity-verification vendor’s platform performs far more extensive checks than users […]

Revisiting Keyed-Verification Anonymous Credentials

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Proposing Botwatch: Trust-Based Community Bot Detection

Is this account a bot? This question’s importance is only growing in a world of LLMs and state-backed influence campaigns. Proposed here is Botwatch, a community-based system for personalized bot detection. In Botwatch, users publish records indicating whether they think others are bots and records indicating trust in a user’s scores. By analyzing this network, we can create useful signals to help users distinguish between bots and humans. Such a signal would consider your trust relations and o...