cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48438449
Also see https://xcancel.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2063573474598166734#m
Age-verification partner Yoti is reporting GrapheneOS users to authorities for using GrapheneOS, due to "past security concerns."
41 Comments
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 159 pts · 75d
who the FUCK is yoti and how do we make them SUFFER for this until they fucking regret it enough to STOP
fizzle@quokk.au · 85 pts · 75d
Ive been paying my domain registrar for services for a decade or so.
A few weeks ago they asked me to confirm my ID with yoti.
Now im in the process of switching to another registrar.
Im so fucking sick of having to invest so much effort just for a bare minimum of privacy.
filcuk@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 74d
Which registrar, if you're willing to disclose?
I'm using multiple, with some domains not having many options. I have yet to see this but it's worrying.
fizzle@quokk.au · 16 pts · 74d
only domains
Domains was a dot au TLD.
I have dozens, but the request was only applied to one of them. I got the impression they were doing the requests incrementally to give support a chance to field all the tickets from people like myself pushing back.
With the ticket, at first a human responded, then the next response was a few pages of AI slop which didnt answer my enquiry. I politely told them that the AI generated response didnt answer my question and asked them to have a human review and respond.
Then I found a more expensive Australian registrar ventraip. They at least claimed to have 24/7 human support. I transferred the offending domain.
Onlydomains idiots replied a week later saying "uh, it looks like this domain has been transferred away, and that was the only one we had requested ID for at this time, so you dont need to do anything for now i guess."
Idiots.
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 74d
I doubt their support team has any control over the situation. It's honestly surprising you got the final email.
fizzle@quokk.au · 0 pts · 74d
My enquiry was to see whether I could provide business details instead of confirming my identity.
The eligibility criteria is either an Australian resident individual or an Australian company.
They said I could transfer to a company but it costs $200.
I was trying to get them to tell me whether that was their fee or the regulator auda. Support didnt comprehend the question.
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 74d
based of you to bail on those shitbags, honestly :D
i hope a lot of places lose a ton of business because of Yoti specifically. I hope it hurts and I hope they know why it hurts.
ulterno@programming.dev · 5 pts · 74d
I left PayPal because they asked for a video instead of a proper method of verification.
fizzle@quokk.au · 4 pts · 74d
I'm just old enough to get cranky about silly things that aren't important to other people I guess.
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 73d
The principal of the matter is in fact quite important and not silly at all. If we don't stand up to protect our privacy in small ways, they will proceed to violate our privacy in larger and larger ways.
fizzle@quokk.au · 2 pts · 73d
Yes, but we also have to function in a world that is hostile to people who value privacy.
Like at some point i want to just be able to live without defending this nebulous intangible ideal.
ulterno@programming.dev · 4 pts · 74d
Perhaps there will be a future generation that saves IPv6 addresses like we do phone numbers.
But then the ISP will ask for Yoti 🤦
fistac0rpse@fedia.io · 83 pts · 75d
Yoti is a British company headquartered in London that operates age verification and digital identity services
bluGill@fedia.io · 43 pts · 75d
Don't the Brits have very strong defamation laws? Seems like an easy lawsuit to win.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 75d
I mean.. GrapheneOS is here to do exactly the opposite of that. Lol. I mean... Fuck Yoti but like ¯\(ツ)/¯
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 75d
ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 74d
Are you implying that they put the vulnerability there? What is even your point? As far as I know they were the first ones to have a fix for that issue but apparently that means that they're inherently insecure. Like seriously, do you even have any idea what you're talking about???
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 74d
ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 74d
You are correct I believe. My understanding was that graphene blocked an api or something like that to address the vulnerability..?
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 74d
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d
I see what you're saying. I'm partial to Graphene but I am picking up what you're putting down.
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · -21 pts · 75d
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 74d
I'm not opposed to old school devices but realistically they're impractical in today's world.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 74d
I used to use flip phones. While cheap, too much of the world expects you to have a smartphone.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 74d
Well that explains a lot. Fucking nanny state.
chunes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 74d
otter@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 75d
I figure that the authorities will get annoyed if they keep receiving false positives from this company
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 75d
They don't seem annoyed by their own false positives when they classify anyone who opposes genociding Palestinians as a terrorist. The UK Government seems quite happy with these heavy-handed tactics for the oppression of politically inconvenient people.
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 75d
Yliaster@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 75d
Zionist scum.
Israel is responsible for genociding Palestine and Britain is guilty for supporting it with arms sales.
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 75d
gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 74d
Fuck me, that's one of the worst takes I've seen in a while. Figured you'd be from Feddit with rhetoric like that. Must be German.
Ah, well. A .world loser posts a shit take, must be a day ending in y.
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 74d
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 74d
gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 74d
IceFoxX@lemmy.world · -23 pts · 75d
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 75d
Chuckles in a Police State "I'm in danger!"
Yliaster@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 75d
Ah yes, a classic.
Find resistance? Kill them in the name of freedom, safety, and ending "terrorism". The irony.
Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 74d
Imagine how much of a piece of shit you must be to work at a company like yoti.
Virtvirt588@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d
Most definitively up on the list of most evil companies.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 74d
If the back end programmers weren't getting paid as much a they did, do you think they'd stage a mass shutdown? If farmers, construction workers and anyone who gave a fuck about ending data centers really gave a fuck, wouldn't they just get all the construction equipment and start knocking them down? The means of production can be halted with good ol' non-conformity and destruction.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 73d
I think most people are just focused on the short term goal of keeping a roof over their heads and food on their table to care. This is, of course, by design.
Virtvirt588@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 74d
Isn't that just a general strike? You know, the thing the US people tried but didn't get quite right.
Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 74d
A strike is chanting and begging for more from pig-dogs who don't give a fuck about you or I. Halting the meaning of production and disruption, is another ballpark, it has an actual consequence to society. Being the people who have the power to shut areas of society down and whining about life being unfair is pathetic.
It's because people don't know how to do it from the inside. They only know how to scream and chant they don't know how to organize on a level that would disrupt anything.