Using widely available technology, well-known ethical hackers Chris Kubecka and Paula Popovici quickly accessed numerous pornography sites without ever verifying their ages.
Uses VPN
Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds
Submitted 8 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 8 months ago
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Please verify if you are 18 or over by clicking yes to read this comment.
- YES
- NO
Looks like a bunch of under 18 year old hackers found out how to click YES.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Ahhh, yes. I remember hacking many sites when I was 16. Such 1337 skills I had.
Badabinski@kbin.earth 8 months ago
FINO is infinitely better in my opinion.
Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
By 10am on Friday, data suggested an extra 66,000 internet users in the UK had begun using the dark web.
“People should be aware that children and adults who use [certain software] to bypass age checks will not benefit from the wider protections offered by our online safety rules.”
Genius
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Although Sky News has verified the methods used by Ms Kubecka and Ms Popovici, we won’t give details or name any software used.
Is it called… Photoshop?
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Would be funny if it was death stranding
shiroininja@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s more about data collection than it is about verifying age
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who would have thought…
passepartout@feddit.org 8 months ago
Today I read a thread of people using the photo mode of death stranding to prove they are Norman Reedus. While this certainly won’t be the end to the story, it’s kind of funny this iteration of a clearly unfinished age verification system got out there. Makes me wonder how good they are going to protect their “customers” data.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Britain’s government spends an insane amount of money to combat what they claim is benefit fraud, taking actions that hurt real claimants far more than fraudulent ones, in the form of reducing or removing the payments. We’re very used to this kind of waste.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
It’s been proven several times that the amount of money they spend tackling benefit forward far exceeds the amount of fraud.
It would literally be cheaper if they just moved over to UBI
UnderFreyja@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
They won’t
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Conservatives are basically terrorists
Badabinski@kbin.earth 8 months ago
I'm gonna start by saying that I absolutely hate the people responsible for systems like this.
With that said, can we please not bring back Gamergate terminology? Call the Australian lady a TERF or an asshole or whatever, but seeing the word "feminazi" makes me feel like I'm back in 2016.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
The UK government is not currently conservative. But they’re doing a very good job of acting like it
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
They are not members of the party called the Conservative Party. It doesn’t stop them from being conservatives ideologically.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
if something behaves like a thing it is, in effect, that thing. the point of a system is what it does
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
All conservatives are not just basically terrorists, they are terrorists. conservatism is a plague that must go away or else we will always be held back.
blargbluuk@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
What an enormous waste of resources this whole thing is
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I think they mean a VPN.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Thanks for telling them…
REDACTED@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Well, they are white hat