People could easily publish their age ID for anyone to use.
Publishing their age ID can result in the age ID getting flagged and recent accounts being disabled. PITA for the user, but be more careful.
If people aren't careful (they aren't) then they will give too much identifying info away to sites anyway, and then those sites could correlate the age ID with their identity
I'm not following. The "over 18?" service should not communicate the age ID to the website and the website should not communicate the account or person name to the government? Nothing except the "over 18" service ever sees the age ID.
When you go to a bar, the bouncer checks your ID and determines your age. He will not remember your name. He will not inform the government you are at the bar. He will not write down who you met with or talked to. We as a society trust he will not do these things. You are still anonymous from the perspective of the bouncer.
If humans really truely tried I am sure we could design a transparent system for verifying age or human-ness that we (tech paranoid Lemmings) could trust.
I don't know what that system would look, but I also didn't know how a "cryotographic decentralized digital currency" would work without the backing of a centralized government in 2008.
Some of the Epstein emails were released as scanned PDFs of raw email format (See MIME)
MIME formatted emails are ASCII based. To include an attachments, which can be binary, the MIME format specifies it must be encoded using base64. Base64 can always take binary input and return an ASCII output. This is trivial to reverse if you have the ASCII output.
However, the font choice is inconvenient because l and 1 look the same.
I'm a bit confused by the article is only discussing extracting PDFs while in actuality you can reverse any attachment including images.
I am also no expert, so a smarter person will now correct me on anything I got wrong.
The only saving grace to that quote is it is from a Michael Lotfi, the deputy state director of Americans for Prosperity Tennessee, a conservative group. A man of no office or consequence.
What are they going to do? Put IoT DRM in every stepper motor?