New EU age verification app hack speedrun record
from cm0002@lemdro.id to privacy@lemmy.ca on 16 Apr 15:41
https://lemdro.id/post/38983673

Link to video of the hacking: xcancel.com/Paul_Reviews/…/2044723123287666921

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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe on 16 Apr 15:53 next collapse

This is the perfect example of how government is the least effective way to do most things.

Government lacks the constraints and risk aversion that smaller groups have - after all it can just pass new laws justifying it’s poor choices, and government is largely immune to recrimination or liability.

(Also, fuck this age verification bullshit, of course).

FooBarrington@lemmy.world on 17 Apr 11:14 collapse

Yet we’ve seen hundreds of examples of those smaller groups taking even bigger risks, and causing lots and lots of pain for their customers due to carelessness and greed.

But at least those smaller groups also take more money to do the same things the government does, and use those profits to take away control over the government from you and me!

isles@lemmy.world on 24 Apr 17:09 collapse

Nevermind building on top of public tech and research funded by said government

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Apr 17:41 next collapse

chefs kiss ✊🏼

Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works on 16 Apr 17:42 next collapse

Thanks for the debugging!

ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca on 16 Apr 17:53 next collapse

I have been wanting to get into this shit for years but have never even begun, save for the tryhackme invitation generator.

Maybe I should… Hollywood hacking magic is childsplay compared to the real thing.

quack@lemmy.zip on 16 Apr 18:27 next collapse

The stated goal of age verification is safety, I have only seen evidence that complying will make everyone using the internet less safe.

a4ng3l@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 20:24 next collapse

Neat. Is the author of that piece of engineering known? What subcontractor company made this?

verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr on 17 Apr 08:53 next collapse

European people find out what Germans already knew about how absolutely ignorant and corrupt VDL is:

Germans: First time?

Yliaster@lemmy.world on 17 Apr 13:16 collapse

Aren’t they alright with it? They’re always far-right in governance they elected

verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr on 17 Apr 17:19 collapse

Whot?

Yliaster@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 10:26 collapse

Germans elect the right, so why would they be concerned?

Noja@sopuli.xyz on 18 Apr 16:50 collapse

We already had mandated age verification before this EU thing, and I think it was even strengthened under the SPD, Greens and FDP coalition in 2021 with the Jugendmedienschutzgesetz

LwL@lemmy.world on 17 Apr 10:11 collapse

It’s a reference implementation, this stuff is intentional for debug purposes.

Not that I have much faith that final implementations will be secure lol

Samskara@sh.itjust.works on 17 Apr 12:35 next collapse

Reference implementations are often copy and pasted into real products.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Apr 19:49 collapse

what precisely is the point of a reference implementation that isn’t good?