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Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits (mashable.com)
submitted 14 hours ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Finally it seems the end of Reddit is near.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

And it would know the difference how?

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

They can force you to use your phone's camera. Due to faceID, modern phones have fairly sophisticated cameras that can tell the difference between a static image and a 3d physical face.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't use my phone for shit like this. If anything that could be just a website can only be used through an "app", I just don't use it.

Edit, also, what's stopping me from holding my phone to a computer screen?

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Modern facial recognition cameras project a grid of infrared dots on your face and use the distortion of them to sense the depth and contours of your face. You'd have to 3d print a head to defeat it.

That said, Reddit is probably doing the bare minimum to comply with the law and will probably just use an uploaded 2d image.

[–] Guilvareux@feddit.uk 2 points 3 hours ago

Meh, it’s just software

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not the person you were replying to but maybe the limit of using the websites like the ones I posted is you can't reuse the same face (at least not than I'm aware of).

So if you are in the UK and you upload 2 selfies from the site and the facial recognition pattern is different from each other, then the system which Reddit is using might reject it.

This is only a guess though.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It should be trivial to generate a stack of similar enough selfies to fool these systems. Still, any site that starts requiring this shit isn't worth going on.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

Agreed. I hope more people leave that dumpster fire.