Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds
Age verification tools on adult websites bypassed in seconds
Using widely available technology, well-known ethical hackers Chris Kubecka and Paula Popovici quickly accessed numerous pornography sites without ever verifying their ages.
Ofcom said these checks "will help stop young children from stumbling across porn".
"Oh no I appear to have accidentally typed pornhub.com into my browser and clicked 'I am over 18' and then clicked on a video. How clumsy of me to stumble across porn like this!"
These people are mind-blowingly naive. If you want an insight into just how naive read the comments from Naomi Miles and Roxy Brealey here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bfe8d0c8-c977-483c-a074-c15fafb654e8
From personal experience - you can definitely tell when someone watches a lot of porn. I believe they’re more likely to sexualise women - and they do that very openly.
Lol no Roxy. You've met some creeps and you thought "they must be creeps because they watch a lot of porn". Most men watch porn and a lot of women too:
A third (33%) of 18-24 females and three-quarters (75%) of 18-24 males visited [pornhub] in September 2020.
Pure idiocy.
"Accidentally stumbling across porn" is not directly searching for it. It's being 12 and browsing DeviantArt for some nice art of video game characters and finding Sonic inflation diaper porn that was obviously drawn by someone your age or younger, judging by the art quality.
Still didn't come out traumatized or oversexed, though I did get the asexuality cheat code for that.
My friends who watch porn have always treated me respectfully. I do wonder if there is any study backing up my idea that porn is not harmful, it's refusing to talk about what is healthy and what is not in a relationship and modeling bad interactions that is harmful. (Funnily enough, the internet taught me this one too. Thank you 2010s Tumblr, and fanfic author's notes and stuff or analysis of relationships between characters mentioning how a dynamic is unhealthy. And reading parental watchdog sites explaining all the unhealthy media models your kids shouldn't watch, ignoring them and going ahead consuming it anyways, but remembering the actual "and that's unhealthy for a relationship" statements.) Or if I'm wrong and it's a mix of things and some kids can be damaged by seeing porn—don't want to discount experiences that do not reflect my own personal bubble and social circle.
I guess this might be hard to understand if you're asexual but my point is that young boys (and maybe girls) aren't "stumbling over porn". They're seeking it out.
If this was only meant to prevent stumbling over porn then the existing "are you over 18? [Yes] [no]" checks would be perfectly fine.
I do wonder if there is any study backing up my idea that porn is not harmful, it’s refusing to talk about what is healthy and what is not in a relationship and modeling bad interactions that is harmful.
Yeah maybe... Porn doesn't even try to depict normal relationships so I don't think it could really be distorting them, unlike films or creepy influencers like Andrew Tate.
Their devices were running standard software, and the tricks they used were simple.
Although Sky News has verified the methods used by Ms Kubecka and Ms Popovici, we won't give details or name any software used.
It really can only be like one of three things... vpn, proxy or tor-like networks... this is not rocket science (to technical people). And all of those things are legal... so when they say:
"Platforms have clear legal obligations and must actively prevent children from circumventing safety measures, including blocking content that promotes ... workarounds targeting young users."
I'm not sure how they think that's possible... is that not at odds with freedom of speech at the very least? Do they really expect every tech company is going to voluntarily ban e.g. all VPN usage because it can be used to circumvent porn blocks? The entire economy and large parts of society would grind to a halt if that were to happen... for example healthcare would suddenly become massively unavailable because they regularly use VPNs to send/receive patient data.
Do they really expect every tech company is going to voluntarily ban e.g. all VPN usage because it can be used to circumvent porn blocks?
Yes. This shit is absolutely an attack on VPNs and every other form of privacy/anonymity on the Internet, for every purpose whether porn or otherwise.
Which is why I'm confident it will fail spectacularly.
Lying is just invented yesterday?
Stumbling across porn is a right of passage for every teenager. You can try to make it illegal all you want, but it happens every time. Maybe instead of fighting the inevitable we make it safer for young adults by educating them about gasp the s word (sex) instead of pretending it doesn't exist.
Not to mention these silly laws also impact the rest of us adults from going about our business. This puritan mindset is backwards and ultimately self defeating. "Think of the children" is used far too often in justification for restrictions instead of doing things that actually benefit children.
As the saying goes, teach your kids about the birds and the bees before the internet does.
hell yeah lol
didn't even need porn when I came of age, started with scrambled tv channels and sears underwear magazine sections.
These laws are stupid, haha.
exactly, people were learning about sexual things before the internet, before TV even. Sex is normal, (just as much as being asexual is also normal), and having sex present in our culture and society is a part of that.