"We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached. Every single time. And every single time it happens, the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that built them act shocked—shocked!—that collecting enormous databases of government IDs, facial scans, and biometric data from millions of people turns out to be a security nightmare."

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

#Discord #AgeVerification #Infosec

DEF CON 34 Update! All of the calls for DC34 in Vegas are now live, including the Calls for Papers, Workshops, Demo Labs, and Policy.

https://defcon.org/html/defcon-34/dc-34-cfi.html

If you're looking to participate in a creator capacity, the submission doors are open and the clock is running. Choose your adventure.

#defcon #cfp #deadline #defcon34