Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And it would know the difference how?

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  • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They can force you to use your phone’s camera. Due to faceID, modern phones have fairly sophisticated cameras that can tell the difference between a static image and a 3d physical face.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t use my phone for shit like this. If anything that could be just a website can only be used through an “app”, I just don’t use it.

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      • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Modern facial recognition cameras project a grid of infrared dots on your face and use the distortion of them to sense the depth and contours of your face. You’d have to 3d print a head to defeat it.

        That said, Reddit is probably doing the bare minimum to comply with the law and will probably just use an uploaded 2d image.

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    • Guilvareux@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Meh, it’s just software

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  • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not the person you were replying to but maybe the limit of using the websites like the ones I posted is you can’t reuse the same face (at least not than I’m aware of).

    So if you are in the UK and you upload 2 selfies from the site and the facial recognition pattern is different from each other, then the system which Reddit is using might reject it.

    This is only a guess though.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It should be trivial to generate a stack of similar enough selfies to fool these systems. Still, any site that starts requiring this shit isn’t worth going on.

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      • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Agreed. I hope more people leave that dumpster fire.

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