Comment on Ofcom outlines ways social media can verify ages of users

mjr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• SpokeFace653@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Or your banking info to a porn site, no thanks!

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• jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  so you’re predicting a tsunami of identity theft

  probably already happened right?

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apparently you can already buy bulk bundles of British passports and drivers licences off the “dark web” - I’m not sure if they’re newer porn site ones or slightly older ones from the Discord thing a while back (or anywhere else which hoards IDs), but to some degree this already has happened.

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    • jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      would be great to see any sources you have on this stuff

      it’s important

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      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sadly it’s merely an “apparently” at the moment, sorry - and only based on a handful of other people having said so. I’d be interested in seeing any newer concrete sources myself to be honest.

        I’ve had a quick look around, and there’s some older ones below, but it kind of sounded like something more recent - as is, I’ve heard several unrelated people kicking off about it in the last month.

        independent.co.uk - How your entire identity could be sold for £30 on the dark web This is mostly talking about Discord-era stuff, and is from January.

        Malware Bytes - 153M+ driver’s licenses for sale on new dark web platform This one is recent, but based on American data - so not directly connected to the “Online Safety Act”, other than a warning.

        Daily sceptic - They Said it Was to Protect Kids. Now Your Passport’s on the Dark Web – and Your NHS Record is Next This is basically a year old - and again is mentioning the discord stuff.

        parliament.uk - The Online Safety Act: implementation and impact This is official government paperwork about the OSA being shit, but doesn’t mention any specific incident

        Metro - Hackers sell scans of 153,000,000 US driving licences – and drivers here could be next This is recent, and in a very widespread UK newspaper, but is covering a recent US related incident. I wonder if this is the source of hearing a lot of very separate people talking about it recently?

        Anyway, sorry I can’t find more about it (yet!).

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  • mjr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Even if so, would that mean we should let the tsunami grow even bigger and harm lots of young adults?

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