Post #2067967

@sarahjamielewis What I struggle to wrap my head around on this OS age verification stuff ... How will they verify that this age verification hasn't been disabled or tampered with? How can they be sure it is working as intended on an OS which is fully open source? Or will they do home visits to check that it is working as it should? Will you need a licence to own a computer, so governments know who has access to computers and how many? I heard families in California could get a $2500 fine if the age verification was not active - how would they know? You need to login on a website regularly to get access to Internet? On the other side, I see a huge win in all of this. The government may very well help fostering up a large force of young hackers who will want to take full control over their computers. Where the clever hacks fooling various audits and controls will flourish on the darkweb which will also most likely grow popularity. And if this goes much further than California alone, maybe this will even contribute to "the year of the Linux desktop"? I'm sure Microsoft will be thrilled! I think I'll just grab some popcorn and watch how this all plays out. And I'll happily help and support kids wanting to learn a few things about computers 😁