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It doesn't fundamentally solve anything. You want to be able to identify a specific person or at least a relatively expensive device so that if you ban them th
by treis 5mo ago
It doesn't fundamentally solve anything. You want to be able to identify a specific person or at least a relatively expensive device so that if you ban them they stay banned.
- altairprime 5mo agoThis is the exact method used to secure iMessage against spam: secure attestation and ‘console’ bans of devices (reversible by iirc phoning support, indicating who you purchased the used device from, and providing an ID). But Google is trying to pull a Windows 11 “TPM or die” conversion on the public Internet via Recaptcha. Welcome to the attestation wars, unwitting websites :)
- rockskon 5mo agoAs others in this thread have commented - there are scammer hubs where a single person controls hundreds if not thousands of phones at a time. The people who this method is most hoping to stop are the least likely to be impacted by it in the long run.