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They cant even define an OS. Do i need a fucking login for my wifi fridge and toaster. Such a stupid ffucking law.
You can't open your fridge for beer until you verify your age.
Drink verification can...catch 22
Like everything on shodan basically? FFS
Why does a fridge need to connect to the Internet? Or a toaster? Why does my toothbrush need Bluetooth?
OK, how about my surveillance cam? NAS appliance? My WiFi light controller? Network switch? They all run Linux.
Well now you have to provide ID to use any of those.
This is just another form of control and a potential verified data stream for governments/corporations/marketers.
How can you prove that internet traffic is a human and not a bot? ID verification.
How can you generate more user data? Force them to provide ID for every device that is connected.
Want to control piracy? Easy with OS level ID requirements.
Good luck, enterprise admins! Best wishes for the future
They will repurpose the same security chips that make digital payments and OS verification soon enough. Then you cannot bypass digital ID because it is on the hardware level.
Seems they are starting with software compliance to see who will voluntarily do their dirty work for them. Assume that M$ and App£€ will comply while making it difficult for smaller independent developers to comply thus removing any privacy options.
Same with Win11, force people to upgrade working tech because it lack hardware security chip support. Call it “anti-piracy” or “security updates” and force people to comply.
ms, google(android) and apple have already implemented this. it's waiting to go live. there was a discussion about it quite a while ago.
that's what this infrastructure is for. all of these bills are written with google/ms/apple accounts with subusers in mind.
California one doesn't even have language to let adults have a user legally...
ultimately I think it's apple/ms working with meta hoping to force people to use Thier software
No no, tell me more about the smart toaster actually...
Can it warm up a jelly donut and play Maroon 5? lol