remedia

“Quick guys, he’s harming himself! That’s OUR job!”

“Today you, tomorrow me.”

Scumbags taking advantage of community spirit.

“Today me, tomorrow you”

In order to provide a “yes, this person is over 18” service for a vendor, the vendor has to know which real name (or other personally identifiable piece of information) to look up, don’t they?

So if you have to provide the vendor with a real name, phone number, ID card number or selfie that identifies the account “draco_aeneus@mander.xyz” with “John Doe/555-4556/X1234567” that eliminates your anonymity, they’ve accomplished surveillance over your personal opinions and whatever other content you share. The real problem isn’t age verification, the problem is they’re trying to eliminate anonymity.

I was the same way before, but you have to weigh the pros and cons of having proper, long, randomized, unique passwords for each site against the possibility that your database password might be compromised. I only have my password database locally, on removable drives.

So in order to access it, I have to plug in a USB drive (I have backups) which only happens for as long as I need the database, then I unplug it. I also use a keyfile, which is on separate drives, just in case. If anyone wants to access it, they’ll need both the “something I know” (password) and “something I have” (keyfile) which is pretty unlikely.

Not advertising, but I use Keepass.

Neon lights? Sorry, that’s only covered by the Premium Plus Elite membership.

For a long time I went with IBM, then Hitachi when they bought IBM’s HDD division. Never had a problem with them. Though there was the infamous “Deathstar” and the click of death.

Scorchio