Psamathe
Über Member
Seems to be a bit of a joke/farce.
I can appreciate the motives of keeping children from being presented with age inappropriate content but what UK Gov. seems to have achieved is just a mess.
A few aspects in a complex issue that that occurred to me:
1. Parental Responsibility: At what point do parents need to take some responsibility for protecting their children. It seems a bit like giving your child an electric motorbike because their friends all have them and saying "I appreciate it's dangerous but I don't understand it so go have unconstrained fun". Loads of parental controls, loads of help for non-tech parents to learn about controls, etc. When one reads reports that yesterday vast numbers of VPN downloads ... how are kids having access to app stores to download such apps? Parental controls?
Parental controls cant do everything but UK Gov. focus on law is allowing parents to believe somebody else is dealing with the problem.
2. Proof of Age: I don't use porn sites but were I to start using social media no way would I be uploading eg my Drivers License to these sites. Even reliable organisations with IT security teams get hacked and all those proof of IDs floating around the internet is a identity fraudsters Christmas & birthdays all at once. Now even more value in hacking sites - all those lovely proof of IDs. Plus even e-mailing it is inherently insecure - your unencrypted e-mail passing through who knows what servers, chached on who knows what disks.
In requiring one solution UK Gov. have at the same time created a massive security hole.
Loads of other aspects but just 2 above.
Ian
I can appreciate the motives of keeping children from being presented with age inappropriate content but what UK Gov. seems to have achieved is just a mess.
A few aspects in a complex issue that that occurred to me:
1. Parental Responsibility: At what point do parents need to take some responsibility for protecting their children. It seems a bit like giving your child an electric motorbike because their friends all have them and saying "I appreciate it's dangerous but I don't understand it so go have unconstrained fun". Loads of parental controls, loads of help for non-tech parents to learn about controls, etc. When one reads reports that yesterday vast numbers of VPN downloads ... how are kids having access to app stores to download such apps? Parental controls?
Parental controls cant do everything but UK Gov. focus on law is allowing parents to believe somebody else is dealing with the problem.
2. Proof of Age: I don't use porn sites but were I to start using social media no way would I be uploading eg my Drivers License to these sites. Even reliable organisations with IT security teams get hacked and all those proof of IDs floating around the internet is a identity fraudsters Christmas & birthdays all at once. Now even more value in hacking sites - all those lovely proof of IDs. Plus even e-mailing it is inherently insecure - your unencrypted e-mail passing through who knows what servers, chached on who knows what disks.
In requiring one solution UK Gov. have at the same time created a massive security hole.
Loads of other aspects but just 2 above.
Ian
