Age verification tools on adult websites bypassed in seconds
news.sky.com
Using widely available technology, well-known ethical hackers Chris Kubecka and Paula Popovici quickly accessed numerous pornography sites without ever verifying their ages.

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

  • refalo@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    25 days ago

    Their devices were running standard software, and the tricks they used were simple.

    Although Sky News has verified the methods used by Ms Kubecka and Ms Popovici, we won’t give details or name any software used.

    It really can only be like one of three things… vpn, proxy or tor-like networks… this is not rocket science (to technical people). And all of those things are legal… so when they say:

    “Platforms have clear legal obligations and must actively prevent children from circumventing safety measures, including blocking content that promotes … workarounds targeting young users.”

    I’m not sure how they think that’s possible… is that not at odds with freedom of speech at the very least? 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? The entire economy and large parts of society would grind to a halt if that were to happen… for example healthcare would suddenly become massively unavailable because they regularly use VPNs to send/receive patient data.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      24 days 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.