RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116160637051672728
the question you should be asking yourself is not “what's the best way to verify the age of every single computer user on earth”
but rather “why the fuck are we trying to verify the age of every single computer user on earth????”
and the answer to that is: fascism
stop. complying.
@nileane This forgets about the 20 year+ supply of older computers going all the way back to the Core 2 Duo that are good enough for what most people do with computers.
It's exactly the same as banning the manufacture of all new repeating firearms: nobody ever scraps a working pre-ban version again.
@LukefromDC This is kindof a false analogy. Firearms haven't meaningfully changed in 50 years or more.
A better analogy would be pre-emissions (or pre-airbags or whatever) cars: Yeah you can keep the old thing running, but parts become harder and harder to find, and the skills to maintain them become more obscure, and that new shiny do-dad (cruise control, lanekeeping, etc) is appealing to the 99% of non-enthusiasts.
With firearms, all the pre-ban owners were "enthusiats" already.
@notecharlie I ws thinking of the 1994 "assault weapon ban" that was repealed in 2004. It banned new production of mags holding more than ten rounds except for cops and military, but exempted existing magazines. The result was nobody ever junked a damaged "pre-ban" mag, and they sold for real money in print publications like Shotgun News and later online.
If you were younger than perhaps 10 or so in 2004 you may never have heard of this former law, sorry about that.
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