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We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services

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Re: We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services

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post #153

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Not all of us are enlightened. Wouldn't you mind telling us what those technologies are?

Ansible comes to mind. Used it to orchestrate hundreds of servers with migrations. Could also simply set up proxmox services beforehand if you're truly motivated, then just replicate the server to another instance.

Hello, may I interest you in NixOS? All your config, in one place, build it again and you got a copy. :)

Re: We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services

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post #265

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This is not about Internet Service Providers. This is about Infrastructure as a Service providers, e.g. AWS, Linode, Azure, GoDaddy, etc. See https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-01580/p-46 for their definition. Misrepresenting what this is about is not helpful.

im not sure i understand are customers of AWS/Linode/Digitalocean now required to submit passport/drivers license to host a blog or website?

This is my question too. IDGI. If I am a foreigner how do they verify that my ID is real? just because it looks "real enough"?

This discriminates people from other countries from having tech resources, possibly increasing poverty by limiting opportunities, at the same time it exposes people to have their data leaked. I don't see how this is a good idea.

Re: We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services

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post #60

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> propose regulations requiring U.S. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers of IaaS products to verify the identity of their foreign customers, Sounds like solid policy to me.

And how do you know that one customer is a foreign one and one is not?

Same way banks do. Documentation.

Re: We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services

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As if they won't just use a stolen identity. And like usual the victim will never even find out because it won't show up on their credit report.

Of course, people who want to circumvent laws will always attempt to do so. That doesn't mean all legal mitigations are useless.

Indeed it does not.

But that also doesn't mean this legal mitigation is either useful or worthwhile.

Re: We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services

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post #21

Skimming through the article, it seems like the extent of this is to require IAAS (Infrastructure) providers to verify the identity of those who are using their services to train AI. It's an attempt to stymie sanctioned or malicious actors, from training AI and especially from hopping between services or using aliases to continue training on their model. It seems a bit benign and I don't understand the parallels othe…

the more information they keep, the more they will expose it in data breaches, or sell/share it with others.
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