| ▲ | RachelF 6 hours ago |
| Age verification is just one part of this crackdown. Device attestation is another - making sure you're using an unmodified government approved operating system and apps linked to your ID. |
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| ▲ | matheusmoreira 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| One day we'll need remote attestation to even get an internet connection. "Untrusted" devices that have been "tampered with" need not apply. Little by little, everything I hold dear is getting destroyed. Computers of our own, that we control, that we can freely hack on. Everything the word "hacker" stands for. How I wish I could turn back the clock... |
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| ▲ | gherkinnn 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | And always have that phone on you at all times please. This goes way beyond any notion of a "hacker tweaking his electronics". With ID checks, device attestation and a device required for any transaction, and all this data piped in to a central brain (none of which are far fetched), we're all pretty much buggered. It is a matter of time until advertising companies claw their way in, insurances calculate individual premiums based on behaviour, and remember, we're all one legislation away from being governed by lunatics. |
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| ▲ | Ouman 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Age verification is the visible, easy-to-sell layer. Device attestation is the more structural one... |
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| ▲ | ranyume 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| AI mass surveillance is another. The powerful are just ceasing opportunities to accumulate power and capital, seeing that right now it is not good enough for them. |
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| ▲ | shevy-java 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > making sure you're using an unmodified government approved operating system Will be interesting to see if this leads to more Linux systems being deployed. Then again with systemd supporting age sniffing (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954), evading this becomes harder and harder. |
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| ▲ | egorfine 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Lennart Poettering is here to make sure Linux won't be a safe place for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572 | |
| ▲ | zahlman 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why would it? Such a government would just... not approve Linux, if it interfered with their objectives. | |
| ▲ | Klonoar 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Systemd changes don’t make it harder, you control the damn OS at the source code level if you choose. | | |
| ▲ | M95D an hour ago | parent [-] | | Theoretically, yes, but Gentoo with all their resources couldn't keep eudev alive. How much free time does one person need to maintain a fork of the entire systemd? |
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| ▲ | darkwater 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Evading what exactly? If the age verification is a flag sent by the OS and you are the OS administrator, you can do whatever you want. |
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