Pact: Anonymous Credentials for the Web

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web securityvolumetric abusePACTrate limitinguser privacy

Author: kevincox

Date: 6/23/2026

Article Summary:
The article discusses the challenges of preventing volumetric abuse on the web, where bots and malicious actors exploit weaknesses in current systems, and proposes a new approach called PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) to enable rate limiting while preserving user privacy.