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Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law (www.vice.com)

submitted 1 year ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Muddobbers@infosec.pub 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not only will they find it, they'll end up going to the sketchier sites that don't do the age verification because they're not well known enough and not following the laws and they'll likely get something infected on the computer/network or worse.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 year ago

Not only will they find it, they’ll end up going to the sketchier sites that don’t do the age verification because they’re not well known enough and not following the laws and they’ll likely get something infected on the computer/network or worse.

It's like that time we declared a war on drugs and then there were no drugs. Wait, actually that led to a massive black market and tons of violence.

Point being, you're not gonna stop it. You're just gonna make it less safe.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep. Who among us as idiot teenagers hasn't downloaded "$current_starlet full nude sex tape.exe" from some shady site?

[–] crackdroid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certainly not me.

I use Arch Linux btw.

[–] cake@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

wine is launching

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even as an idiot teenager I knew the difference between an executable and a video file.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think you were the exception not the rule. Or maybe I'm just old. Back in my day you would try to open that linkin_park.mp3 that you downloaded off of limewire, and who knows what you were actually gonna get. Normally some heinous porn or gore video, but I'm sure there was an executable or three in those, too.

I think nowadays this is harder to do, but I could still see some kid getting fooled on some shady tracker site or something.

[–] casualucco3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For me learning about file extensions was definitely heavily influenced by early Kazaa / Limewire / DC++ days :) Fool me once etc..

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I definitely got my share of stuff that didn't match the title from Limewire, but the only .exe I ever downloaded from it was Limewire Pro. It took zero effort to check the file name for the extension.

[–] psud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Or to reddit and lemmy