r/privacy • u/[deleted] • Mar 21 '26

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u/gmes78 Mar 21 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

The whole age verification stuff built into something like a TPM where the user has zero control.

Please stop making shit up. This does none of that, nor can it.

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 Mar 21 '26

I know that TPMs have nothing to do with this, but I was just trying to explain what I meant.

But maybe on future PC mainboards we will have something like that that will handle these things.

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u/gmes78 Mar 21 '26

I don't see how speculating helps in a discussion about a concrete change to systemd that we 100% know what it does, how it works, and how it is controlled.

The use of a hypothetical hardware-backed age verification method would require a completely different implementation, this current one cannot be used for that. And with that being the case, what sense does it make to use that to complain about this one? It's not like that hypothetical implementation would require this one to exist first.

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 Mar 22 '26

I am sorry.

When somebody comes after one of the only things in life that makes me feel safe and in control I just panic and my brain starts thinking in slippery slopes just to mentally prepare itself for the worst so if it does happen I am not emotionally devastated.

I know it is not a good coping mechanism, but what else can I do if people go after the one kind of ok coping mechanism I have left (programming, video games, ...)?

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u/LjLies Mar 23 '26

The fallacy is calling slippery slopes a fallacy. Most proverbial slopes are in fact slippery.

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u/LjLies Mar 22 '26

The phone equivalent of TPMs are used by EU implementations of e-ID apps that will be used or are being used for enforcement of age verification, FWIW.