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Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check
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Hopefully, we will have the means to strip out or spoof the SystemDOGE verification in Linux. Or even better, something akin to torrenting, where many false IDs are manufactured and shared, constantly replaced as needed by automated AI.
I truly don't trust the corporations and government that wants to connect our physical and digital selves together.
Hopefully. At the mo, it's totally bypassable.
But what concerns me is, it could so easily slippery slope into being unavoidable. Most sites forced into requiring some PKI signed token. Token only obtained by giving your gov ID to Big Surveillance.
The requirements of modern life could end locked behind a mass surveillance gate.