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Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by beambot »

jsheard wrote: post #7
cocoto wrote: post #4

The real and robust method will be generating artificial video input instead of the real webcam. I really don’t think any platform will be able to counter this. If they start requiring to use a phone with harder to spoof camera input, you will simply be able to put the camera in front of a high resolution screen. The cat and mouse game will not last long.

They already support ID checks as an alternative to face scanning, if the latter proves to be untenable then it's literally a case of flipping a switch to mandate ID instead.

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) credentials used by US government & military via NFC already work on web browsers. States should just move to digital IDs stored on smartphones, with chain of trust up through the secure element...

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by Retr0id »

dark-star wrote: post #43
0x1ch wrote: post #25

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Worked for me as well. Hopefully my account of 11+ years isn't penalized because of this. Not like it matters because I'll quit anyways if forced to send my face or ID.

You probably won't even have to validate then. I guess they can safely assume that you didn't create your account when you were 7 years or younger. They said they expect 80% of users or so to be auto-verified by some other means (account age, typing statistics, whatever)

My account is almost a decade old and discord is still asking me to complete age verification.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by herpdyderp »

GaryBluto wrote: post #39

I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them and that they do not like. Does the convenience of remaining on a service you don't like the management of outweigh the mild effort to find an alternative solution?

> remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them and that they do not like

And yet here we all are, still in an uproar every time GitHub goes down. Change is slow, we can't all leave GitHub in a day. Same with Discord users.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by ddtaylor »

pfych wrote: post #41
kevinh wrote: post #24

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Alternatively, hand someone $20 and your phone and have them do the verification for you.

This is just what I did, and plan to continue to do.

You can just use a video from YouTube there are people that do it that just don't care

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by Gigachad »

GaryBluto wrote: post #39

I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them and that they do not like. Does the convenience of remaining on a service you don't like the management of outweigh the mild effort to find an alternative solution?

Why do middle aged people still use Facebook marketplace rather than another platform? Because even if you put in the effort to use something different, you’ll be the only one there.

The effort to coordinate everyone to move at the same time is bordering on impossible.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by qwertox »

cocoto wrote: post #4

The real and robust method will be generating artificial video input instead of the real webcam. I really don’t think any platform will be able to counter this. If they start requiring to use a phone with harder to spoof camera input, you will simply be able to put the camera in front of a high resolution screen. The cat and mouse game will not last long.

you put a flickering light, pwm creating artifacts in the video and have it apologize for it, to hopefully break some watermarks. my led light started acting up since yesterday, i have no other bulb.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by [deleted] »

leftouterjoins wrote: post #58
gnarbarian wrote: post #37

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you counter this by using an id verified service like login.gov or okta verify. That's the endgame and what the EU really wants. No poasting unless they can arrest you for inconvenient memes.

Yes this is spot on. Apple & Google mobile platforms are locked down tight for this reason. Try installing okta verify on graphene OS. You cannot.

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Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by Gigachad »

GaryBluto wrote: post #47
Anonbrit wrote: post #45

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I don't control most of the discord communities I'm in. Some have been going a long time, and every platform migration sheds and shreds members. The 'mild effort' to move an old community to a new platform more often than not killed the community

> and every platform migration sheds and shreds members. What's the problem? You're filtering out people who don't really care about participation in whatever group or society is there. People who want to participate will move to an acceptable service and those who feel that is too much effort probably weren't participating much (if at all) anyway - in that case the only difference is the visible list of people with…

The people will just recreate the same community on the same platform without you as the owner. They don’t care about you running it.

It’s also a futile effort since age checks for adult content is becoming the law around the world so soon any platform you move to will have the same checks.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by digiown »

junon wrote: post #67
alright2565 wrote: post #59

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ID is much easier to forge, it's just a flat 2-d shape. None of the physical security features come through in images.

When I had to prove my passport for my bank over a video call they told me to rotate it around in the sunlight to show that it had the holo-whatever ink. So I wouldn't put it past them.

A call requires a human, which is inherently not scalable. And even humans have trouble distinguishing AI content these days.

Re: Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

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Post by ddtaylor »

EGreg wrote: post #27
cocoto wrote: post #14

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You could always generate a random face model with real time rendering with enough details to trick any AI detector (or even human) and then you can do real time animation to orders or screen light tricks. You could also simply use some face filter on your face and these ones are really convincing these days (like on Snapchat and such).

Show me such a model. It would be interesting to see a model completely indistinguishable from a real human in behavior, as well as real-time reflection off different surfaces, etc. The next step would be to make a complete digital clone of a person based on surreptitiously recording them with hidden cameras. I doubt it's possible.

This is doable using high end stuff like Runway with a draft quality.

Your better bet would be to generate a face as an image and then you can easily generate that same face in different expected poses and conditions. You can then use existing models where you get to select the starting image and the ending image. Add some filters and noise to just make it look like normal crappy low light camera.

As for the color that's another expected condition and can be overlayed or pre-generated.

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