{"id":1162,"date":"2025-01-07T00:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/weekly-update-433\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T00:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:04:55","slug":"weekly-update-433","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/weekly-update-433\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update 433"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Weekly Update 433<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2025\/01\/Splash-Template%401x_1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Weekly Update 433\"><\/p>\n<p>It sounds easy &#8211; &#8220;just verify people&#8217;s age before they access the service&#8221; &#8211; but whether we&#8217;re talking about porn in the US or Australia&#8217;s incoming social media laws, the reality is <em>way<\/em> more complex than that. There&#8217;s no unified approach across jurisdictions and even within a single country like Australia, the closest we&#8217;ve got to that is a government scheme usually intended for accessing public services. And even if there <em>was<\/em> a technically workable model, who wants to get either the gov or some big tech firm involved in their use of Instagram or Pornhub?! There&#8217;s a <em>social<\/em> acceptance to be considered and not only that, circumvention of age controls is <em>very<\/em> easy when you can simply VPN into another jurisdiction and access the same website blocked in your locale. Or in the case of the adult material, I&#8217;m told (\ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f) there are many other legally operating websites in other parts of the world that are less inclined to block individuals in specific states from foreign countries. There&#8217;ll be no easy solutions for this one, but it&#8217;ll make for an entertaining year \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"width: 170px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast\/id1176454699?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2018\/05\/Listen-on-Apple-Podcasts.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 433\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 175px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL7LAAxaabizMAXnJe0s3xjQ30q12EVmjt&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2024\/09\/Watch-and-Listen-on-YouTube.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 433\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 118px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7jMtKFohdrw6qmz8AkLqit?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2019\/10\/spotify.svg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"Weekly Update 433\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 120px; display: inline-block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/troy-hunt-weekly-update\/playlists\/podcast.rss?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/content\/images\/2018\/07\/Download-via-RSS.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 433\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LUZIjr13RH4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"references\">References<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/report-uri.com\/?src=troyhunt.com&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Sponsored by:\u00a0Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don\u2019t get pwned; get real-time alerts &amp; prevent breaches #SecureYourSite<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1874678037591261546?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">My trusty Synology DS1512+ finally died after 12 years of faithful service<\/a> (since recording this video, the new DS923+ arrived and migration was <em>super<\/em> smooth)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1874893431576969587?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Pornhub addressed the age verification mandate from a bunch of US states by simply&#8230; blocking them<\/a> (I wonder if there&#8217;s a way around that&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/troyhunt\/status\/1876042946040246726?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Proton VPN has seen a &#8220;massive surge&#8221; in VPN signups from the US<\/a> (&#8230;there we go \ud83d\ude42)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2024\/12\/global-age-verification-measures-2024-year-review?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The EFF reckons there is no effective age verification method<\/a> (they also downplay the negative impacts of social media on kids, which I disagree with)<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/haveibeenpwned\/status\/1875089647635959913?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The Glamira data breach made it into HIBP<\/a> (link through to a Reddit thread where the company acknowledged the breach last year, no word on whether they disclosed to impacted individuals)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Troy Hunt<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/weekly-update-433\/\">Go to troyhunt<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Update 433 It sounds easy &#8211; &#8220;just verify people&#8217;s age before they access the service&#8221; &#8211; but whether we&#8217;re talking about porn in the US or Australia&#8217;s incoming social media laws, the reality is way more complex than that. 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