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"Proteus! You just killed 123 schoolgirls, you sick mofo!"

"You're absolutely right."

> Can we stop with the uptime percentages?

100%!

I am willing to be educated; does the average schoolkid carry such a device?

I suspect that the number of kids using not using an app on a device that is aware of its locality is a rounding error.

Tesco* phones on some network's family plan must be 95th percentile.

(* other high street retailers are available)

This.

Smart people could apply their skills and build a genuinely useful technology.

But seems they would rather stick their finger in their ears and pretend that it's not happening. And they will be ignored.

WHen did this learned helplessness become so in vogue?

Doesn't sound like the kind of device that your average schoolkid has in their pocket?

> But the entire EU is implementing stuff like this. Gov ID's, backdoors (swiss article 50a), etc.

Switzerland isn't in the EU, though.

"But everyone uses their phone all the time!"

Kids do.

Sure if they want to circumvent and go home and use Dad's laptop to cyberbully or send pictures of their wang they probably could ...

Not it's location.

If a site creates some opaque token representing the request, and the token is signed by the ID service with no other information disclosure that "The user that presented this is of the appropriate age" that would seem like a reasonable compromise.

Token could be signed out-of-band to obscure the interaction between the parties.

"like"

It's not beyond the wit of humankind to build a working system.

If the app on the kid's phone knows that the phone is registered in the UK, how would a VPN circumvent it?

Article is doing a lot of supposing:

"To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan."

> likely

It could, of course, use a double-anonymous system like the French one.

Probably not, but I'd rather that they didn't state their guess as fact in the title.

I have absolutely zero knowledge about the area, but doesn't Polymarket just set up bets between users?

If you're a regular bookmaker, who is on the hook for any losses, then yes you would ban successful users. But in this case you just skim off a fee for each "trade" so there's no incentive to ban anyone.

> Setting up Kerberos just to authenticate users for access to my Linux ISOs is a crazy large requirement!

Export as read only?

And how does one verify that the public key received belongs to the intended party, rather than a mitm?

If the answer is blind trust in a third party that runs the messaging service then I suspect that you can guess what the people asking those questions are really asking.