Thread: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Old 14-03-2026, 20:26   #1754
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Re: Online Safety Bill Etc
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Originally Posted by Carth View Post
Ensuring a young persons online safety by making them reveal their personal details to anyone that asks is definitely the right way to go . . . says nobody with more than 7 brain cells.

It's just the typical knee jerk reaction of the Government and its army of experts, not just in this case but many over the previous years.
You make a good point, but the issue is not really making a young person reveal their details, it’s making you and I and everyone else over 18, hand over personal details to some third party (probably the cheapest contractor - cheapest for a reason) and trust that they have a degree of competence and won’t allow all of that personal information to be hacked - hint, they won’t.

Do expect that within a year this company will be subject to a ‘sophisticated attack’ - which generally means that some clown (probably in higher management - because the rules don’t apply to them) clicked on a link in an obvious phishing email and coughed up their credentials. And naturally because they are the Senior Vice-President of Marketing and toilet paper, they absolutely have to have full admin rights over the entire system.

Cynic? Me? Absolutely not!
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