SMillerNL

What’s to stop people from providing that service to buy people alcohol?

For an implementation to work, it should: * Let the service know that the user is an adult by providing a verifiable proof of adulthood (eg. A proof that’s signed by a trusted authority/government) * Not let the service know any other information about the user besides what they already learn through http or TCP/IP *

Seems like that’s exactly what https://yivi.app/en/ can do.

And he should know…

https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/ has a good overview how bad it really is

No, they’re talking about their own dependencies

Not disagreeing with you, but since the author is asking about GitHub… the XZ GitHub didn’t actually have any malicious code. Only the website tarbal did.

It’s been like this on iOS for a long time.