Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI
CEO Sam Altman happens to head a company that provides age verification services. Probably a coincidence.
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #AgeVerification #IDVerification #privacy #surveillance #technology #enshittification #dystopia
Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI
CEO Sam Altman happens to head a company that provides age verification services. Probably a coincidence.
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #AgeVerification #IDVerification #privacy #surveillance #technology #enshittification #dystopia
Inside the #Systemd #AgeVerification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism
The useful idiot learned literally nothing.
Inside the #Systemd #AgeVerification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism
I teach cybersecurity. And I genuinely don't know what to tell my students after this one. Federal reviewers spent years trying to get basic encryption documentation from Microsoft for its GCC High government cloud. They couldn't get it. One reviewer called the system a "pile of spaghetti pies," with data traveling from point A to point B the way you'd get from Chicago to New York: a bus to St. Louis, a ferry to Pittsburgh, and a flight to Newark. Each leg is a potential hijacking. They knew this. They said this out loud in writing. Then they approved it anyway in December 2024, because too many agencies were already using it. 🔐 That's not a security review. That's a hostage negotiation. Two things in this story should make every CISO and CIO uncomfortable:
🧩 Microsoft built its federal cloud on top of decades of legacy code that it apparently can't fully document itself
👮 "Digital escorts" often ex-military with minimal software engineering backgrounds are the firewall between Chinese engineers working on the system and classified U.S. networks 🤦🏻♂️
The scariest line in the whole ProPublica investigation isn't the "pile of shit" quote. It's this: FedRAMP determined that refusing authorization wasn't feasible because agencies were already using the product. Read that again. The security review process reached a conclusion based on sunk cost, not risk. Ex Post Facto Fallacy
If that logic holds, the compliance framework is just documentation theater. And right now, CISA is being hollowed out, so there are fewer people left to even run the theater.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/
#Cybersecurity #Microsoft #FedRAMP #Leadership #RiskManagement #security #privacy #cloud #infosec
I teach cybersecurity. And I genuinely don't know what to tell my students after this one. Federal reviewers spent years trying to get basic encryption documentation from Microsoft for its GCC High government cloud. They couldn't get it. One reviewer called the system a "pile of spaghetti pies," with data traveling from point A to point B the way you'd get from Chicago to New York: a bus to St. Louis, a ferry to Pittsburgh, and a flight to Newark. Each leg is a potential hijacking. They knew this. They said this out loud in writing. Then they approved it anyway in December 2024, because too many agencies were already using it. 🔐 That's not a security review. That's a hostage negotiation. Two things in this story should make every CISO and CIO uncomfortable:
🧩 Microsoft built its federal cloud on top of decades of legacy code that it apparently can't fully document itself
👮 "Digital escorts" often ex-military with minimal software engineering backgrounds are the firewall between Chinese engineers working on the system and classified U.S. networks 🤦🏻♂️
The scariest line in the whole ProPublica investigation isn't the "pile of shit" quote. It's this: FedRAMP determined that refusing authorization wasn't feasible because agencies were already using the product. Read that again. The security review process reached a conclusion based on sunk cost, not risk. Ex Post Facto Fallacy
If that logic holds, the compliance framework is just documentation theater. And right now, CISA is being hollowed out, so there are fewer people left to even run the theater.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/
#Cybersecurity #Microsoft #FedRAMP #Leadership #RiskManagement #security #privacy #cloud #infosec
The discussion about age verification in systemd / Linux was locked. But the description of the merge request can be changed ...
The following part was removed: "helps support age verification requirements from recent legislation".
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176
#ageVerification #systemd #Linux #FOSS #openness #transparency #freedom #Microsoft #privacy
@tor Never mind #Banksy, someone at Reuters should be doing a deep dive into #DylanMTaylor's bank accounts.
The discussion about age verification in systemd / Linux was locked. But the description of the merge request can be changed ...
The following part was removed: "helps support age verification requirements from recent legislation".
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176
#ageVerification #systemd #Linux #FOSS #openness #transparency #freedom #Microsoft #privacy
The discussion about age verification in systemd / Linux was locked. But the description of the merge request can be changed ...
The following part was removed: "helps support age verification requirements from recent legislation".
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176
#ageVerification #systemd #Linux #FOSS #openness #transparency #freedom #Microsoft #privacy
