Posted by WalterSobchak 14 hours ago
They should also require background checks for gun safes.
Right now I'm on an ESP32 with free RTOS, will I need to add a keyboard and display just for age verification?
Curious how they plan to do this. Maybe digital rights management tied to TPM. If so it will take 3 ... 2 ... 1 .... cracked ... spoofed. DVD's were cracked with Perl. Curious what language this will be cracked in.
What's next? Chinese style social credit? You’ll need 800 points to run a sudo command?
Free society? Mass surveillance. The West is becoming more of a nanny state like China every year.
If not, why not? You need age verification before you even create an account.
This thing is so broadly-written, the only thing saving you from needing to give you age to your toaster is that it's not a "general-purpose" computing device. Never mind that it can run DOOM...
also: what's download? in embedded sphere, flashing a firmware is often reffered to as download. That's an industry standard term.
For example, I've got a map application on my phone that lets me download maps, widgets, POI lists, etc. from their app store. It seems like enabling that age signal through this exchange is exactly what the politicians are looking for.
Overall, I think don't think it's a bad idea for devices to be able to host an age verification system that offers requestable boolean proof of age, like if porn site demands over 18 to view, the user, regardless of age, is prompted and if they accept, it returns either a positive cryptographic claim or a cancel signal if not of age. If they don't accept the prompt, the same cancel signal goes back. The idea that this feature would need a mandate of law is dumb.