The recent brouhaha about Age verification at the OS level is bringing a lot of anger at the overreach of government, particularly in this case with California and Colorado. But the real instrument of control here is the warning I gave last year about the TPM chip which the Microsoft fan boys were quick to criticize me on. Same with the Security chip on phones.
Well watch and weep as the stupidity of the fan boys is now going to be obvious as these changes ensue. The effect of Age Verification at the OS level is that devices not verified as attested by apps will be declined. So apps won't run on Linux or de-Googled phones.
Very very dangerous step. Let's talk about what we should do.
Something very basic that the average person does not care about even if they knew about it. Your every click on a website is tracked. Every single one. How does this work? Surprisingly easy enough to understand yet apparently no one wants to explain this.
There are ways around this for the privacy conscious but the mechanics of the tracking has to be fully understood.
A rant. The most irritating thing for those of us who are privacy conscious are comments like "what are you hiding?" or "as long as you follow the law who cares?" or "you're paranoid".
I'm sure I'm not alone on this. Well, if you get irritated by this, then there is nothing wrong with you. Ignore these NPCs but you also need a smart understanding of why you do need to care and why these NPCs are the ones who are wrong.
The intent to scan content to counter end-to-end encryption is no longer theoretical with the passing of the UK Online Safety Bill.
How would the OS makers then build in client-side scanning? Let's tackle a theoretical project to do this on your favorite operating system (Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android).
This would be how I would do it.
