Mit einem aufgezogenen Schnurrbart können Kinder die Alterskontrolle umgehen
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/04/kids-can-bypass-some-age-checks-with-a-drawn-on-mustache/5224601
Von BendicantMias
Mit einem aufgezogenen Schnurrbart können Kinder die Alterskontrolle umgehen
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/04/kids-can-bypass-some-age-checks-with-a-drawn-on-mustache/5224601
Von BendicantMias
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As found by the Internet Matters survey, it seems that the „safety“ regulations required by the UK’s „Online Safety Act,“ that went into effect last year, don’t seem to be doing a whole lot of „protecting.“ Of the 1000 kids surveyed, 46% say the checks are easy to bypass, only 17% claim they’re hard to get around.
The workarounds are myriad – the headline only focuses on the one that’s both the funniest and the most damning, but other methods mentioned include using pictures of video game characters, lying about their birthdays, and the old classics – either just snatch an adult’s ID long enough to get a picture, or just getting a „cool parent“ to sign them up. Internet Matters found that 17% of parents admitted to actively helping their kids get around the check, and 9% more just looked the other way.
We need to ban mustaches. Think of the children!
Well great now they ruined the fun with this article
> „Stronger action is needed from both government and industry to ensure that children can only access online services appropriate for their age and stage and where safety is built in from the outset, rather than added in response to harm,“ Huggins said in the report.
They want more invasive age verification.
Age verification and age assurance are unacceptable privacy violation that only exist to steal personal information. Mandatory age verification needs to be illegal for social media, mature content, and other services that aren’t government sites, drugs/alcohol, or financial services.
The bureaucrats aren’t going to surrender; they’ll come up with a way to make the rules stricter.
Let’s throw more money at this and hire more people! /s
Even girls?
Lol, didn’t those brilliant tech consultants think about that?
My son friend bypass the age verification using netflix profile picture of his father from the tv 🙂
My son told me how easy it was.
So, it seems that it is another failed ideea this age verification.
Age checks are BS
[I mean, it works ](https://ibb.co/wZ6wcDSM)
When they ban the most popular sites that are more likely to requlate what kind of content they have wont the teens just go to a shady sites with less requlation.
So this is gonna be the next New arms race. Age verification and bypass methods. Ending up in an endless money pit to accomplish the impossible. People Will Always find a way to bypass this stuff. Look at the DRM vs piracy armsrace.
I never understood why we even need age checks. Just don’t give a kid an ipad or smartphone?
Quick find a baby, we need to do tests
Why is the focus not instead on implementing better parental control systems? All these age verification systems are really sketchy, if you want to protect children give parents and guardians better, easy to use parental controls and delegate the responsibility to them? I don’t get why all of a sudden it’s the governments and companies‘ responsibility to look after our children?
How about three kids in a trenchcoat?
Palantir needs more data!