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Ten days ago, the social chat app Discord announced that it would launch “teen-by-default” settings for its global audience. As part of this update, all new and existing users worldwide will have a teen-appropriate experience, with updated communication settings, restricted access to age-gated spaces, and content filtering that preserves privacy and meaningful connections, the platform said.
This, of course, means that to use Discord the way you are used to, you’ll have to let it scan your face, and the internet wasn’t happy. Many communities quickly announced their move to other platforms. Others, like the security researcher Celeste, who goes by the handle vmfunc, were convinced there would be a workaround.
Together with two other researchers, they set out to look into Persona, the San Francisco-based startup that’s used by Discord for biometric identity verification – and found a Persona frontend exposed to the open internet on a US government authorized server.
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday February 21, @01:20PM (4 children)
How does it know the face is yours? Could you scan someone else's face? Could you use a photograph?
There is someone in the extended family who is in his late 30s. He still gets ID'd when he goes to buy tobacco. I wonder what it would make of him?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 21, @01:39PM
From the linked article, they use some AI wankery to try determine the 'liveliness' of the presented image to try get around this, and this Persona mob also have access to multiple other databases full of personal information...
(Score: 4, Funny) by corey on Saturday February 21, @09:45PM (2 children)
Instead of face photos, they just need to have a quiz most adults would be able to answer successfully to get in, like Leisure Suit Larry. Without the alt-x bypass. Simples.
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Sunday February 22, @11:55AM
"Name the main character in Star Wars", that should do it.
(Score: 2) by suxen on Tuesday February 24, @11:08AM
Wait... Leisure Suit Larry had an Alt-X bypass?