Store birth date in systemd for age verification
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Re: Store birth date in systemd for age verification
#2This should be the time for open-source developers to use their common sense to decide whether we should push back.
If California wants to create its own Protect the children operating system, it should bear the cost and responsibility for this alone, and not export any of the sketchy political agenda to the wider open source community.
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#3I don't mean to come across as a snob, or anything like that, but I find this PR really odd.
It's the authors first time contributing to this repo and it the feedback on the PR that was addressed is really odd, like some of it is super basic stuff, even if you're not familiar with the code base or the language.
Just an all round weird vibe.
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#4Having this in userdb is not bad per se. We already have a bunch of PII in there.
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#5Pretty good implementation imo
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#6The context is that this is in response to California in the US potentially passing a law that requires age verification on the operating system level.
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#7Where can I drop a file to always return 1969
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#8Having this in userdb is not bad per se. We already have a bunch of PII in there.
I like the analogy of data as oil: polluting when it gets out.
I'd like to severely limit the amount of PII on the system.
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#9Tangentially related, but does anyone know what Poettering's "cryptographically verifiable integrity" endeavor[0] is about yet?
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#10I had to check the date; is not April yet