Was looking at a used car online. Found a site that had option to ‘reserve’ the car until paperwork was done. Started innocuously with email and phone info, to text updates. Fine. Then it asked to verify info, with scans of driver’s license.
Persona.
Noped right out.
Sounds like a scam. My friend recently looked for cars online, saw one he thought was good. Had a weird description “only 70,000km on the odometre but air conditioning is broken” like how? Then my friend paid $300 for a “viewing” of the car and the scammer made off with the money. Needless to say my friend isn’t very smart and never was! Imagine paying just to see something. This is sadly what mental illness does to a person. Not the first time my friend was scammed either.
Blog post by the people who found this: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona
read part 2
In other news: “Duh.”
Agree but this does need to be explained to people who aren’t in the know. These laws are currently being marketed as “put the power in parents hands” in various states left, right, and center.
Its a good bet when there seems to be widespread bipartisan push for restrictive laws that literally no one asked for, it’s gonna be something bad. But you have to explain to mouthbreathers in the electorate why or this shit just gets rammed through.
There’s no explaining it to the public at large in our forums. We already know. Unless people suddenly watch a couple trusted news sources en masse and those news sources choose to explain, ignorance will rule.
But then that’s the entire point of fracturing information like this. Fake news. Don’t trust science. That’s woke, don’t listen. Etc.
The Epstein class wants to reliably know who is (and therefore isn’t) an adult on the internet.
Holy fuck I got about 10 minutes into this can someone do a tldr
Great article! Some writing cannot be accused of AI-generation… Because it’s good.
Loyal Moses has been on about this. Apparently the bills require third party cloud storage of the information in addition to an online requirement (for logging in???), and continuous telemetry to in use apps on the desktop environment.
I didn’t have internet until the 90s when I started college anyways. It’s gone way downhill with the barrier to entry being so slow. I’m fine going back to gopher, maybe some telnet BBSes, start getting more people to acquire LoRa mesh devices lol. I’ll even go back to sending everyone paper checks instead of doing online bill payments.
I hear you do what you can, it is too late already but your effort is appreciated.
