evacideHacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.
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Persona’s exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from mentions of terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships to combat online child exploitative material, cannabis trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, romance fraud, money laundering, and illegal wildlife trade.
Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches...
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So to keep kids safe from online predators, we're willing to *horribly* invade their privacy and sell all their data to predators? I see the system is working as intended 😮💨
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Martin Vermeer FCD
Kevin Karhan 
@martinvermeer @tootbrute @alice @evacide well #discord always has been garbage and #KYC is always bad!
Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] That's why *"#KYC IS THE ILLICIT ACTIVITY!"* - I mean, there's a [*trivial bypass*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LsF4FF6gO4) but #Discord itself is garbage!
Clem@alice @evacide i juste read and article by @Ivovanwilligen about persona and if he doesn't know about all this well now he does !
His article : https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
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