L’hacking di Discord mostra i rischi dei controlli dell’età online mentre le speranze della polizia di Internet vengono messe alla prova | Notizie dal cielo
https://news.sky.com/story/discord-hack-shows-dangers-of-online-age-checks-as-internet-policing-hopes-put-to-the-test-13447618
di hamstar_potato
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>But the best way to stop data being hacked is not to collect it in the first place. We’re at the start of a defining test – can governments actually police the internet? Or will the measures that are supposed to make us safer actually end up making us less secure?
And I wholeheartedly agree.
I better want my data work for me and not for goverment or others to resale.
Who on earth could have seen this coming 😱
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Yeah, but as we see in this case, all security arguments are bullshit when people are already sending ID copies to random services, subcontractors (like in this case), Airbnb hosts, etc.
Yet suddenly it’s a problem when the government asks for it…
And no one will care. Those that believe in the ”for the children” lie don’t want their data private anyway. Those that do will be shrugged-off as potential criminals.
Governments can barely maintain the law in the physical world, yet they aim to attempt the same in the virtual one, where their lack of competence exposes them – and those they (allegedly) wish to protect – to countless more bad agents, and those agents will likely be even among those providing the necessary services to enact this control in the first place.
And even what little order they can manage to enforce will in the end rely on independent private companies keeping the data safe. That’s not taking into account how resources spent on all this will be detracted from solving the more pressing issues. What a joke.
Even a CS undergrad could write a solid essay on why age checkers and a digital ID database are a bad idea. And some of the people pushing these systems are postgrads with doctorates and proper industry experience.
Technology and security do not always go hand in hand, and having a basket of tech does not mean we should look for problems to solve with it. That is not how IT or IS should work.
There are loads of tech enthusiasts who lost the meaning of technological scepticism. Just because we can do something does not mean we should. I swear to God, nowadays even a washing machine needs a touchscreen, mobile app and internet.
Who asked for that?
Same here. I did not ask governments, which are notoriously under-equipped, understaffed and underqualified, to start technological ventures they have no capacity to deliver.
How on earth are you going to tell people most ransoms succeed and organisations have to pay criminals in Russia, China or North Korea, and then try to implement a system that gives direct access to the most sensitive information citizens have?
Technocratic lobby sector is a literal cancer when it comes to politics.
Safe online identity solutions are possible. This service apparently stored its users data: this is not necessary. Date on how old you are (or even better: if you are old enough) can be provided by a government or for example a bank on demand and would merely require a data request without storing that data.
This is why OSA and digital ID should be rejected people’s data all being in one place makes it easier for hackers to gain access to it.
I refuse to give my details to third party companies to verify age I use VPN
Risks? Try failure.
Yet, the EU just decided that everyone has to verify their age on the internet “for the kids”.
Peter Thiels pay list must be quite long lately.
Hackers started salivating the moment these idiotic laws started passing. Anyone who has spent more than five minutes on the internet could have seen this coming. These laws have got to go.