▲ 1014 ▼ Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks (www.internetmatters.org) submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Deep@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world 134 comments fedilink hide all child comments Full Report(PDF).
[+] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago (5 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago (1 child) Oh that's a great idea to use politicians to get past age checks assuming of course they don't get butthurt enough to claim it's full on fraud permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago You have to have the word Parody on it somewhere. Then it is not fraud. The thing looks so stupid anyways and has the security feature markings from my id anyways. I am not fooling a human. permalink fedilink source parent [–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (2 children) My email is now 9 pages long… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) Do not do this if you play in grey hat territory. You are going to be on a list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago* Not sure what you mean by that. I’m just writing an email to oppose this, my email is not like the above poster. I am just laying out arguments why this is a bad solution and will not work. Which is what we’re seeing with kids drawing moustaches and borrowing IDs at will. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago (1 child) Oh that's a great idea to use politicians to get past age checks assuming of course they don't get butthurt enough to claim it's full on fraud permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago You have to have the word Parody on it somewhere. Then it is not fraud. The thing looks so stupid anyways and has the security feature markings from my id anyways. I am not fooling a human. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago You have to have the word Parody on it somewhere. Then it is not fraud. The thing looks so stupid anyways and has the security feature markings from my id anyways. I am not fooling a human. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (2 children) My email is now 9 pages long… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) Do not do this if you play in grey hat territory. You are going to be on a list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago* Not sure what you mean by that. I’m just writing an email to oppose this, my email is not like the above poster. I am just laying out arguments why this is a bad solution and will not work. Which is what we’re seeing with kids drawing moustaches and borrowing IDs at will. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) Do not do this if you play in grey hat territory. You are going to be on a list. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago* Not sure what you mean by that. I’m just writing an email to oppose this, my email is not like the above poster. I am just laying out arguments why this is a bad solution and will not work. Which is what we’re seeing with kids drawing moustaches and borrowing IDs at will. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago* Not sure what you mean by that. I’m just writing an email to oppose this, my email is not like the above poster. I am just laying out arguments why this is a bad solution and will not work. Which is what we’re seeing with kids drawing moustaches and borrowing IDs at will. permalink fedilink source parent