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Exemption on age verification for Linux operating systems (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by SentientNPC@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

There's nothing preventing Linux from giving online services a random age. Being exempt from the law just means we don't have to implement real age verification.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing yet. Just give it a year or three before those age attestations given to websites have to be cryptographically signed by a corp.

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