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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

They can't really make linux illegal. They'll make selling devices without age verification illegal. Essentially making selling devices with an OS that doesn't play ball illegal.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    They can't make it illegal, but with a little frog-boiling, they can make it functionally useless for visiting websites you might need to use. No identity verification = no access, and Linux = no identity verification.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I'm certain a "John Doe" false identity signature would be trivial to create.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Not if they use cryptographic signing.

    Browser sends website the signed identity verification, then the website checks the signature against some key in a list of trusted identity verifiers. With the verification responsibility being pushed to the OS vendors, that will be a short list of tech megacorporations. And maybe Canonical or Red Hat, if we're lucky.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Indeed, but wouldn't the inevitable database breach give ample "identities" for anonymous users to cycle through (similar to aurora for play store infrastructure)?

    To be clear, the circumstances are not good and ideally this destructive behavior is averted, but there will be maneuvers which can be taken if worst comes to worst.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Just means we will have to wipe the preinstalled OS, as is already the custom. Also means there will likely be efforts to lock down consumer devices similar to how Android OEMs make it difficult to impossible to unlock the bootloader

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