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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] 25 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Anyone who has installed and set up an OS knows this is both dumb and criminally dangerous.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Explain the

    criminally dangerous

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    This program would likely need to to be on start up, it's another vector for data imput, this can be done wrong a lot of dif ways because of those two points alone.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    But that's already doable in UEFI & logins. A 3rd vector into age checking users is just another analytics.

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