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Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds (news.sky.com)

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Using widely available technology, well-known ethical hackers Chris Kubecka and Paula Popovici quickly accessed numerous pornography sites without ever verifying their ages.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Do they really expect every tech company is going to voluntarily ban e.g. all VPN usage because it can be used to circumvent porn blocks?

Yes. This shit is absolutely an attack on VPNs and every other form of privacy/anonymity on the Internet, for every purpose whether porn or otherwise.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Which is why I'm confident it will fail spectacularly.

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