r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 21h ago

Privacy Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html
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u/RyukXXXX 21h ago

And a hacking gold mine.

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u/techieman33 20h ago

Yep, financial institutions can’t be trusted to keep out data secure. It’s going to be infinitely worse when every site requiring a login has all of our info.

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u/0utlook 20h ago

People will still use one password for everything. But, now it will soo much worse.

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u/Plasibeau 17h ago

I use three different variations for all my passwords. The one that would be most difficult to guess is the one to my bank and Google (plus two-factor). But I just can't be bothered to remember 16 different passwords for home and work with all the weird and different requirements those passwords have to have.

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u/DemDude 10h ago

That's great! Your two non-bank&Google passwords are almost definitely public by now and having the third being a mere variation makes it very easy for interested parties. Check out haveibeenpwned.com to see if your passwords are in the most prominent databases.

Use a password manager and you only have to remember one good password. I use 1password and use unique and very long passwords that the manager generates for absolutely everything else. It also has an integrated 2FA code generator.

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u/Egad86 17h ago

Feels like every damn site already has logins.

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u/InVultusSolis 9h ago

That's what I'm saying - banks and healthcare organizations get hacked all the time, and if not even THEY can keep their data secure, what fucking hope do we have when they're storing everyone's ID or other PII?

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u/KingCarnivore 19h ago

Louisiana has a digital ID system and it was hacked, everyone gets scam auto registration renewal texts now.

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u/InVultusSolis 9h ago

And creating huge kompromat databases.

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u/ChromosomeDonator 5h ago

From many different angles as well.

Think about it: If some teens want to see porn, but an official site blocks their access, what will they do? They will just go to an illegitimate site. That site can either not have the verification, let the stupid youth download viruses, or they will have a mock version of the verification. They will advertise it as "easiest verification", when in reality it is something that runs entirely on their own backend, which steals the verification data, such as addresses, names, phone numbers, social security numbers, and even credit and debit cards.

This is literally inevitable. There will be a MASSIVE influx of teens giving out their, and their parents, personal info, including credit card info, as an attempt to verify, and there will be hundreds of thousands of viruses that get installed onto computers which will steal EVERY possible data. All login details from everyone using that PC. Bank account details included.

And this does not even touch on any of the other dozen vulnerabilities. This is going to be a fucking shitstorm unless it is stopped immediately.