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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 19 days ago

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

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Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 19 days ago
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We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitiv…
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    In other news: “Duh.”

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    i want the 90s internet back, when only nerds were on it. it was way better back then.

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      Some of those nerds are how we got to where we are today.

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        So you’re saying forbid the rich from using the internet?

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          I think we should just forbid being rich

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      Every time I say this I get downvoted to hell

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      the music, the clubs, the clothes, the food

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    Loyal Moses has been on about this. Apparently the bills require third party cloud storage of the information in addition to an online requirement (for logging in???), and continuous telemetry to in use apps on the desktop environment.

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    “Child safety” has simply become the marketing department for a rent-seeking surveillance industry.

    Damn ain’t that the truth.

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    Was looking at a used car online. Found a site that had option to ‘reserve’ the car until paperwork was done. Started innocuously with email and phone info, to text updates. Fine. Then it asked to verify info, with scans of driver’s license.

    Persona.

    Noped right out.

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      Sounds like a scam. My friend recently looked for cars online, saw one he thought was good. Had a weird description “only 70,000km on the odometre but air conditioning is broken” like how? Then my friend paid $300 for a “viewing” of the car and the scammer made off with the money. Needless to say my friend isn’t very smart and never was! Imagine paying just to see something. This is sadly what mental illness does to a person. Not the first time my friend was scammed either.

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        I had a friend that stupid. Had.

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    Great article! Some writing cannot be accused of AI-generation… Because it’s good.

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    The Epstein class wants to reliably know who is (and therefore isn’t) an adult on the internet.

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      They want to identify the bots from the humans. Partially for advertising.

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        They want to identify the girls. For grooming.

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          It was a typo. Fixed.

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    deleted by creator

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      Don’t LoRa mesh devices have extremely low bandwidth?

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      I hear you do what you can, it is too late already but your effort is appreciated.

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    read part 2

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    Holy fuck I got about 10 minutes into this can someone do a tldr

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      No. Some things are important enough to fully read.

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