It saddenss me that people jump to implement infrastructure to support age verification in central parts of the Linux system.
It is just a field, they say.
Yes, but the field and the timing clearly points to a political agenda. The developers pushing these changed are either supporting this agenda or cowards.
Not sure what is worse.
But no matter you stand-point, be aware: This is political!
The #SystemD infrastructure and API's to support #AgeVerification is a GDPR disaster waiting to happen.
Moving fast and breaking stuff to support this agenda might make a default setup of Linux illegal in the EU.
Prove me wrong.
Sidenote: OS level #AgeVerification only works if a third party can ensure that you are running a unmodified trusted operating system.
- No more compiling your own kernel.
- No more using third party kernel modules.
- No more hacking your own initrd.
- No more small distributions.
- And obviously no more fully controling which services #systemd starts.
Watch out for systemd to merge the infrastructure for an attestation system.
Peter Makholm