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404 Media previously reported kids said they were using photos of Trump and G-Man from Half Life to bypass the age verification software in the popular VR game Gorilla Tag. That game uses the service k–ID, which is the same as what Discord is using.

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[-] natecox@programming.dev 105 points 5 hours ago

You can’t pull one over on these kids. They have tons of free time and none of the responsibility of adulthood, they’re gonna bypass whatever the fuck you put in front of them.

I was that kid that refused to be constrained and I’m so fucking proud of this generation for carrying on the legacy.

[-] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

Same. Now I’m an adult who refuses to be constrained.

[-] proudblond@lemmy.world 37 points 4 hours ago

My kid last year in 5th grade (or maybe even the year before?) and his classmates figured out they could use shared Google Docs on their school accounts to have chats with each other, during school. The parent side of me rolled my eyes but the 80s kid in me was legitimately proud. Did I narc on them? Hell no.

The one hilarious thing is that all sorts of new social issues arise with this kind of workaround. Document names get changed, someone deletes something that someone else thinks is important, etc., and they have to work it out. So it’s a learning experience, for sure!

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

Lol my kids did the same thing. Kinda proud of those lil hooligans.

[-] misterbngo@awful.systems 9 points 3 hours ago

we did this in the late 2000s when schools banned chat programs. Just working in Google docs teach.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago

Arguing about Google Docs will prepare them for the corporate world

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 hours ago

WHY CANT WE JUST USE A WIKI???!211!

Sorry, I just had a flashback to my previous job where we used google docs.

[-] bonn2@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

I did this in school like immediately lol

[-] MaddestMax@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

+1 just for using "narc". Which by the way, reminds me every time, of the arcade game of the same name. Loved that game. 🚀

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

The only thing that taught me more about computers than trying to get porn is trying to pirate software.

[-] Rollade@lemmy.ml 54 points 5 hours ago

Lmao I didn't had "bypassing corpo surveillance with a vtuber software" on my 2026 bingo

[-] yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk 20 points 4 hours ago
[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 hours ago

Have they learned nothing since people used screenshots of death stranding the first this technology was used on a major platform?

If it works with such basic 3d models then what is stopping people from using an ai generated or stolen picture?

Kinda makes me think the goal is not to keep kids safe, its to avoid accountability when kids end up not being safe.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It was not screenshots. The entire point of the Death Stranding thing was that you had a live camera feed of a face that passes the "liveliness" checks that prevent you from using static pictures.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 hours ago

Oh that detail is a TIL

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 23 points 5 hours ago

FOSS

Pick the best replacement option and run with it.

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 hours ago

You gotta sell your friends and/or fam on it, though

[-] jpablo68@infosec.pub 6 points 4 hours ago

how about just NOT using discord?

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 hours ago

Cool that it is possible but I rather ditch Discord when this is forced upon me.

[-] Red_October@piefed.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Good. And lets hope it's not even the only one.

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

That‘s honestly less surprising or impressive than people using Death Stranding for that.

[-] Cricket@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Someone had made a bypass hack that didn't even need 3D anything, only generated metadata, but the ID vendor has patched it: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/

this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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