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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month 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 · 1 month 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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      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.

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

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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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    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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