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by pdpi 1595 days ago
One particular bit that tickles me about this is the mandatory credit card checks for age verification on porn sites.

Yesterday’s obvious attempt at fraud is tomorrow’s legal obligation, and the fraudsters are going to love it.

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Indeed. You can tell a historically bad technical measure by the following phrase being repeated forever: ”we will never ask you for…”. I await this for credit cards.