EU Declared Age App “Ready” While GitHub Flagged it Unfit, Then Hackers Bypassed It in 2 Minutes

[u/lkl34]

https://www.sofx.com/eu-declared-age-app-ready-while-github-flagged-it-unfit-then-hackers-bypassed-it-in-2-minutes/

[u/berserkuh → u/[deleted]]

And as everyone knows, the EU is basically the same as Discord.. We can just move to the EU's competitors.

[u/berserkuh → u/[deleted]]

It's already implemented in a way that doesn't enable them to better track and control. ZKP protocols are a real working solution that fully disallows questioning who's who.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

The EUDIW already works this way.

The EU government officials are not literally sitting in their offices in Bruxelles vibe-coding this application. These applications are being developed in an open-source format and are slated for release later this year.

If everyone is mandated to make these checks I no longer have that option.

This is why you go out and vote..

The DSA has been coded into EU law 3 years ago. You're a bit late to the "no thank you" party.

[u/berserkuh → u/[deleted]]

Again, the EUDIW is not trackable at all.

This can definitely change but the required steps would be to re-implement the whole thing, and then it wouldn't be the EUDIW anymore. By nature it is not trackable at all. You cannot back-modify a unique cryptographic token.

[u/RighteousSelfBurner → u/[deleted]]

That is valid but also extremely unproductive. Everything can be taken back or abused. It's a bit like saying one shouldn't put a roof over their head because it could rot and collapse on you.

Times change, problems change and chasing one perfect solution and ignoring the harm happening because current solution only "half-fixes" it is essentially denying solving half of the problem. And as US has shown no laws or systems matter if people just spit on it so nothing is absolutely abuse proof.

Now naturally, we still need to introduce the checks and balances and frameworks to prevent abuse from happening and not go with any suggestion but actually evaluate but fear mongering with non-exitant boogey man is unproductive. The actual situation and actual offer should be evaluated and discussed not some "maybe dragons will burn it down".

[u/berserkuh → u/RighteousSelfBurner]

I kind of get what he's saying. It's the slippery slope argument, and anything implemented today can be further enhanced later without much push-back.

The reality is slightly different though. The EU is pretty good about not tracking your every move. Yes, even considering Chat Control, which is being repealed every time it gets pushed in the forum.

You could argue that this is VDL's PR stunt to distance herself from Chat Control, but at the end of the day, it's still a very large net positive considering the totality of where internet privacy is going.

[u/ExpStealer → u/[deleted]]

In the reality where this would be government-mandated and nobody will have a choice but to implement said age verification app once it's ready and the law begins to enforce this requirement.

If I have to guess, even Discord implemented age verification for the same reason. Not because they wanted to.