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Using widely available technology, well-known ethical hackers Chris Kubecka and Paula Popovici quickly accessed numerous pornography sites without ever verifying their ages.

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[–] passepartout@feddit.org 98 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Today I read a thread of people using the photo mode of death stranding to prove they are Norman Reedus. While this certainly won't be the end to the story, it's kind of funny this iteration of a clearly unfinished age verification system got out there. Makes me wonder how good they are going to protect their "customers" data.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Britain's government spends an insane amount of money to combat what they claim is benefit fraud, taking actions that hurt real claimants far more than fraudulent ones, in the form of reducing or removing the payments. We're very used to this kind of waste.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

It's been proven several times that the amount of money they spend tackling benefit forward far exceeds the amount of fraud.

It would literally be cheaper if they just moved over to UBI

[–] UnderFreyja@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago