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

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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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      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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