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just use your brain and don't upload your face and driver's license to a gossip website. when I was growing up, it was common knowledge that you shouldn't post
by beeflet 1y ago
just use your brain and don't upload your face and driver's license to a gossip website. when I was growing up, it was common knowledge that you shouldn't post your identity online outside of a professional setting.
The onus is on users to protect themselves, not the OS. As long as the OS enables the users to do what they want, no security policy will totally protect the user from themselves.
- tonymet 1y agoThe app store is auditing & restricting functionality within the iPhone, but the backend protections are a wild west. "use your brain" is no substitute for security. This is a hacker forum. We think about how to protect apps. Even smart people have slipped up
- dvngnt_ 1y agoThis is becoming more unfeasible as it becomes required to access online services like reddit, nexusmods, verification on dating apps. Sending facial, and documentation data is becoming mandated by governments across the world.
- alecco 1y ago[flagged]
- nemomarx 1y agoDo you think it'll stop with those sites? You might need it for your banking app soon, or to browse LinkedIn, or etc.
- alecco 1y agoBanks already ID you in person (at least the ones with branches). And LinkedIn has been useless for years for most of my family and friends.
- bigfishrunning 1y agoThen I'll do my banking in person, and stop browsing LinkedIn. I'm looking forward to my reduced dependence on the internet.
- bathtub365 1y agoYour bank will close branches thanks to the incredible convenience of online banking.
- bigfishrunning 1y agoThey haven't done that yet, and if they do there are tons of other banks for me to use.
- JoshTriplett 1y agoFor banking it's fine; I expect to need to prove my identity to my bank, and it's tied to my bank accounts. And I expect a bank to have high security. The vast majority of online services have no good reason to want my ID, nor will they ever get it.
- ImJamal 1y agoIs there a single bank that doesn't require ID to start an account?
- dvngnt_ 1y agolife is better with skyrim mods
- arrowsmith 1y ago> just use your brain and don't upload your face and driver's license to a gossip website Meanwhile, in the UK, new legislation requires me to upload my face and driver's license just to browse Reddit.
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- aydyn 1y agoYou only require ID verification for NSFW subreddits, right?
- Mindwipe 1y agoNsfw includes subreddits that discuss beer.
- GoatInGrey 1y agoYou know, what's funny about NSFW is that a lot of things tagged NSFW are actually regularly discussed at work!
- NekkoDroid 1y agoWhile true, using that logic I can say porn is also discussed at work if you work in the porn industry :) On a more serious note, implementing such a law without also providing a 0-knowledge authentication system ready to use by the government is just so unbelievably stupid (for multiple unrelated reasons).
- arrowsmith 1y agoAll of Reddit is NSFW. Why are you on Reddit, you should be working!
- selfhoster11 1y agoAnd requiring KYC to access a subreddit marked NSFW is somehow legitimate why, exactly?
- qualeed 1y ago>just use your brain and don't upload your face and driver's license to a gossip website. It isn't just gossip websites requiring this, and it isn't just gossip websites suffering breaches.
- Beijinger 1y agoYeah, just upload the pictures of unsuspecting guys. Sorry, well deserved ladies. It just made my day. ROTFL. And please provide an app with all the names and pictures of the ladies who used it. So that I can easily check who not to date.
- adamrezich 1y agoGood thing our children will learn all about this at their mandatory Internet Literacy Fundamentals course they have to take in high school. Oh wait—no such thing exists! It's up to us to teach this to our children. There's no hope of getting the current generations of Internet users to grasp the simple idea that app/website backends are black boxes to you, the user, such that there is absolutely nothing preventing them from selling the personal information you gave them to anyone they see fit, or even just failing to secure it properly. Without being a developer yourself or having this information drilled into you at a young age, you're just going to grow up naively thinking that there's nothing wrong with giving personal information such as photos of your driver's license to random third parties that you have no reason to trust whatsoever, just because they have a form in their app or on their website that requests it from you.
- tonymet 1y agoeducation is helpful, but it's also inadequate. we need good drivers, and good driver safety systems. they go hand in hand. even the most savvy consumers slip up, or are in a hurry. it's impossible to make a perfect security decision every time
- 9dev 1y agoNice, some unsolicited victim blaming!