SocialMediaRefugee comments on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Yup, the REAL goal here is to get an ID associated with an IP address to remove your anonymity from the web.

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Governments already have an ID associated with an IP. There is no ISP that im aware of that lets you register anonymously.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Dynamic IPs, VPNs...

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Dynamic IPs still have an ID associated. VPNs most can be subpoena for the true IP. Yes you can hide your IP but only a tiny fraction are doing that work and this law isnt going to affect them.

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[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

But the IDs are reused, they can really only track you while you're using the internet.

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[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 1 point 6 months ago*

Yup, the REAL goal here is to get an ID associated with an IP address to remove your anonymity from the web.

Maybe I'm I don't have enough of a technical understanding (and I'm wrong about this) but I believe there is some sort of fingerprint at the OS level (not IP or Mac) that they can obtain when you're on the net that in turn they want to map to your identity, thus even if you're using tor/vpns to mask your IP, you're still identifiable.

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