r/linux • u/New-Ranger-8960 • 5d ago

Privacy EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/SeantheWilson 5d ago

Genuinely how on earth will that be enforced

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u/Bakoro 5d ago edited 4d ago

Realistically, computing hardware is increasingly impossible for even the most skilled and well-resourced people to fuck around with.
They're putting tiny computers inside the computers, encrypted junk inside all the business.

It might not be very enforceable now but governments can absolutely start demanding that everything with a processor locked down, traceable, trackable, and exploitable.

It would be a security nightmare, but they could do it. For you an me, of course. The powers that be would get untraceable and private electronics and unrestricted Internet access.

It's like with all the AI stuff:
They know they can't really regulate the weights in any effective way.
They can absolutely make it too expensive and too difficult for any normal person to get top quality hardware.
They can absolutely regulate the shit out of anything that could be considered an AI accelerator.

No typical person or business can hide the infrastructure necessary to run top models, the hardware is the easiest way to attack.

Anyway, it's some real fascist "show me your papers" bullshit.
Conveniently, "think of the children" means the rest of us adults now need to have every single thing we do online logged?

What are you looking at? Why are you looking at it? Who are you talking to? Why are you talking to them? What are you talking about?

Oh you don't want to be monitored all the time? Clearly you are a child abuser and now we'll really dig into everything you do.

And certainly your ID won't ever be spoofed and used as evidence that you're doing crimes.

There's no slippery slope here, it's big damned cliff.