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After Discord fiasco, age-check tech promises privacy by running locally. Does it work?
On-device face scans and cross-platform age keys decrease privacy risks, but trust issues abound.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/after-discord-fiasco-age-check-tech-promises-privacy-by-running-locally-does-it-work/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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“We had a couple of days of intense attempts to try and breach our systems, but these attempts were thwarted, and the attack lost momentum,” Tewari said.

I hope people do continue attacking these systems just to shut this smug fucker up. They faced a small attack (a couple of 10s of people in a GitHub thread having a crack at it). Imagine facing the sort of resistance that Google/YouTube faces with yt-dlp.

Client-side solutions that run in non-attested environments will always be broken. Always.