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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months 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 ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months 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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      Every time I say this I get downvoted to hell

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      I’d like to see people rebuild something like that inside i2p or something similar. But with modern browser fingerprinting it’s very hard not to be identifiable even there, unless you take precautions most people absolutely won’t do.

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

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    “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

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      Don’t LoRa mesh devices have extremely low bandwidth?

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