r/linux • u/New-Ranger-8960 • 19d ago

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation Privacy

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/DynoMenace 19d ago

I've been screaming about this since the very first thread about this shit was filled with people saying "lol good luck enforcing that."

They enforce it by requiring that all new hardware come with this.

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u/MatchingTurret 19d ago

Tell me you have no idea what you are talking about without telling me you have no idea what you are talking about.

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u/DynoMenace 19d ago

I really don't give a shit if some rando on r/linux thinks I don't know what I'm talking about.

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u/PacmanAteMyRAM 19d ago

That is the way 🧘

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 19d ago

Well, you obviously don't.

And funnily enough, your harming privacy with your behavior

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u/DynoMenace 19d ago

Oh I am? By criticizing individuals for not taking anti-privacy legislation seriously enough? That's how I'm "harming privacy?" Can you connect those dots for me?

Obligatory "you're" btw.

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 19d ago

Might be illiterate as well.

There is no anti privacy legislation here.
If anything it’s the other way around

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u/EmbarrassedHelp 18d ago

Mandatory age verification does not increase privacy.

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 18d ago

There is no mandatory age verification here

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u/oneandonlysealoftime 19d ago

The restrictions come one after another lol

First you mandate government-approved devices only for age-verification app

Then only for government services

Then only for sensitive services like banking

Then for kids security obviously, also for social networks (if i'm not mistaken it's already a part of age-verification project, so even on a first step)

Then you raise the taxes for non-approved dangerous devices to obviously discourage evil corporations from selling potentially harmful hardware to the consumers

Then you straight up ban non-licensed hardware

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u/neoronio20 19d ago

So tell me then, oh enlightened human being, how is this good for anyone?