Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check (www.techdirt.com)
from yogthos@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 15 Mar 21:10
https://lemmy.ml/post/44545210

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 15 Mar 21:27 next collapse

In other news: “Duh.”

mctoasterson@reddthat.com on 15 Mar 22:05 collapse

Agree but this does need to be explained to people who aren’t in the know. These laws are currently being marketed as “put the power in parents hands” in various states left, right, and center.

Its a good bet when there seems to be widespread bipartisan push for restrictive laws that literally no one asked for, it’s gonna be something bad. But you have to explain to mouthbreathers in the electorate why or this shit just gets rammed through.

Zephorah@discuss.online on 15 Mar 22:25 collapse

There’s no explaining it to the public at large in our forums. We already know. Unless people suddenly watch a couple trusted news sources en masse and those news sources choose to explain, ignorance will rule.

But then that’s the entire point of fracturing information like this. Fake news. Don’t trust science. That’s woke, don’t listen. Etc.

Zephorah@discuss.online on 15 Mar 22:22 next collapse

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.

ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw on 15 Mar 23:54 next collapse

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

irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Mar 00:06 next collapse

Blog post by the people who found this: vmfunc.re/blog/persona

ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org on 16 Mar 01:46 next collapse

“hiding inside” of it? No no, the whole point is surveillance with full KYC. With the end goal being digital ID and CBDC and social credit scores. What the authorities consider to be correct behavior will earn points and if you so much as breathe a syllable of a question about why they’re making you do something you’ll lose points and you’ll be locked out of things that didn’t require an ID to get into before, possibly even access to a grocery store or any other place or service you could get food from

HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Mar 02:23 next collapse

read part 2

imacatnotaman@lemmy.ml on 16 Mar 03:44 next collapse

I didn’t have internet until the 90s when I started college anyways. It’s gone way downhill with the barrier to entry being so slow. I’m fine going back to gopher, maybe some telnet BBSes, start getting more people to acquire LoRa mesh devices lol. I’ll even go back to sending everyone paper checks instead of doing online bill payments.

Doomsider@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 04:12 next collapse

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

toadster@lemmy.ml on 16 Mar 07:49 collapse

Don’t LoRa mesh devices have extremely low bandwidth?

imacatnotaman@lemmy.ml on 16 Mar 13:24 collapse

yeah, i’m retired and don’t need speed. i started with a 300 baud modem lol

diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 04:28 next collapse

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

Gwyntale@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 10:14 collapse

No. Some things are important enough to fully read.

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 05:40 next collapse

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

douglasg14b@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 13:13 collapse

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

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 13:51 collapse

They want to identify the girls. For grooming.

douglasg14b@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 23:29 collapse

It was a typo. Fixed.

fubarx@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 05:40 next collapse

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.

ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml on 16 Mar 06:20 collapse

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.

EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Mar 20:45 collapse

I had a friend that stupid. Had.

osanna@lemmy.vg on 16 Mar 08:00 next collapse

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

WhoathereBub@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 20:13 next collapse

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

Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 20:29 collapse

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

Thesilverpig@lemmy.ml on 17 Mar 15:59 collapse

I think we should just forbid being rich

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca on 16 Mar 20:29 next collapse

the music, the clubs, the clothes, the food

RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 16 Mar 20:33 collapse

Every time I say this I get downvoted to hell

[deleted] on 16 Mar 12:06 next collapse

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douglasg14b@lemmy.world on 16 Mar 13:22 collapse

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

Damn ain’t that the truth.