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I assume that the consequences of OS-level age verification, or DRM or even "golden key" encryption backdoors will be to ban open source operating systems. That
by bediger4000 8mo ago
I assume that the consequences of OS-level age verification, or DRM or even "golden key" encryption backdoors will be to ban open source operating systems. That would be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, wouldn't it? Virtually all recent system-level advances were made in open source operating systems.
- replooda 8mo agoTrying to grasp is like playing some sort of malice–stupidity 5D chess. Do they realize such a ban would be unenforceable? Even if it were, would they really strive inflict something like Windows Server as the sole foundation of the Internet as a whole? Do they realize that if their wildest surveillance wet dreams came true, everything got the perfect backdoor, the perfect backdoor would be just as perfect for any of their enemies who managed to wield it? If they do realize, do they care? Again, they're not just dinosaurs or politicians, they're both, so who knows.
- hulitu 8mo agoEmbrace, extend, extinguish. Who lobbies for age verification ? /s