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  • We seem to talk about vastly different things or from complete different technical perspectives here, so I will take a few steps back and simplify it:

    I, the government, issue your ID (with all the usual stuff making if forgery-proof). On the front is all your personal info, on the back a big marker that you are a legal adult.

    If you want to buy something age-limited you just show the backside of your ID. I as the government have all your data but don’t know where you use your ID, the guy checking your ID has no data because he can trust me that I checked your age and provided a forgery-proof ID personally for you.

    That’s it. That’s the whole (simplified) process. And you can reacreate exactly this concept digitally with basic cryptographic methods for online use.

    So were is the problem with such a model? (Yes, I know that this is NOT what they are planning. But that’s the whole point. It is possible, the governments are just not interested because they actually don’t want to protect oyur privacy and outsourcing other methods to private companies -that do it cheaply because they want your data- is more profitable.)


  • I was obviously not talking about random paper-based passports but the one ID that is already standard and required for every citizen. And that one -if you decide to give it away- is tied to you, has your identity and is not easily replaced. But requiring to submit all that information on a low level internet verification process is unneccessary, when just “yes, I have that card proving I have the proper age!” is perfectly functional for that purpose.

    There is no one-size-fits all solution for security. But for basic stuff like acccess to online stuff an anonymous solution based on your ID is perfectly workable. Nobody is preventing additional biometric checks for more important stuff, it’s the general things in day-to-day life we need to primarily protect from data kraken trying to profile us to make money.




  • I’m talking about things you can do technically.

    Governments don’t plan completely idiotic ideas because they don’t know better but because their actual reason for choosing the system they chose is NOT creating a workable system that protects your privacy.

    That’s the whole point. Articles like this aren’t completely wrong. The systems planned are indeed a risk to privacy rights. But we need to stop pretending that it’s an accident and the government simply don’t know better or there is no better solution at all. Actual solutions exist and we need to talk about the fact that those are ignored intentionally because a working system that protects your privacy is simply not the goal here.


  • Which is the reason I talked about the passport. It doesn’t have to be unique, just a flag cryptographically signed by the issueing government.

    Yes, I can still give away my passport then so that someone can get into adult stuff on the internet… or I can open it for them. So that’s not exactly the use case I’m that actually about.

    But that’s all missing the point. There is simply no interest in developing a proper system. Just like terrorism, or child-pornography, age verification is just another pretense to establish surveilance, weaken privacy rights and monetize us by outsourcing everything to private companies (purely concidently usually connected to AI and very interested in all data they can get theri greedy little hands on). We can discuss the technical issues for years, but the people actually planning that stuff won’t care because that’s not the actual agenda.



  • Wäre natürlich interessant wegen den Sprays, die neuer sind oder nicht immer getestet werden, aber aus den letzten Jahren ist bei mir hängengeblieben, dass sowohl Autan Multi Insect auch auch die beiden Hausprodukte von DM und Rossmann immer im “Sehr gut” bis “Gut plus” Bereich abgeschnitten haben. Letztere beiden für etwa ein Drittel des Preises. Und mit regelmäßigen Bestnoten gegen Mücken und Zecken (aber dann leicht schlechteren Bewertung bei Gesundheit/Hautverträglichkeit) ist auch Anti Brumm Forte seit einem Jahrzehnt immer oben mit dabei - DEET ist halt als Wirkstoff irgendwo der Goldstandard für Insektenabwehr aber schon die harte Keule.


  • Eine mehr als 3 Jahre alte Aussage, zu einer Zeit als man dank harter Arbeit der Vorgängerregierung, um Deutschland völlig abhängig von Russland zu machen, nicht mal wusste, ob wir den Laden ohne Gas nicht einfach zu machen können, heute als Diskussionsgrundlage heranzuziehen (um so mehr, wenn es bei heutiger Politik auch darum geht, dass genau diese Russlandkuschler, die es damals verbockt haben, jetzt wieder an die Regeirung kommen und -magischerweise- plötzlich mehr gegen Russland sein sollen… wer’s glaubt uns so…), ist schon ein wenig daneben, oder? “Darf nur unsere Wirtschaft nichts kosten”-Politik wirst du in den kommenden Jahren sehen. Und die wird uns alle in der Tat der viel kosten…

    PS: Journalismus ist tot. Es gibt nur noch die Klick-Erzeugungs-Industrie. Und die hat halt kein Interesse daran, zu informieren, Dinge zu hinterfragen oder gar einzuordnen.