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Erik van Straten

@LukefromDC : it won't be that bad (it will be bad, but in a different way).

ANY website may ask a user to confirm they are 18+ (or whatever age).

There will be a huge amount of AitM (Attacker in the Middle) websites where naive people will be lured to (using fake emails, SMS, chat app messages or falsified QR-codes) and asked to confirm their age.

That AitM website will subsequently obtain a "ticket" (session cookie) from a real "relying party" website (with a potentially very different type of content than the victim is told).

Those "tickets" will be sold (or traded for watching ads and/or paying with privacy).

Reliable authentication requires a trustworthy identity verifier (even if identification is restricted to age+).

@drgroftehauge @fabio @SylvieLorxu

#AgeVerification#ByPass#Phishing
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Engadget: X is once again selling checkmarks to US sanctioned groups, report says. “X has once again been accepting payments from people associated with terrorist groups and other entities subject to US sanctions, according to a new report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP). According to the report, X has not only accepted payments in exchange for its premium service, but in some cases […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/18/engadget-x-is-once-again-selling-checkmarks-to-us-sanctioned-groups-report-says/

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#bluechecks#Disinformation#identityverification
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Mashable: How to self-verify on Bluesky. “Want to get verified on Bluesky and add that sweet, sweet checkmark to your account? Well, you might have to wait for that, but there’s a workaround until applications open. In April 2025, the social media platform added a way to verify authentic accounts and demonstrate it through blue ticks on profiles. It’s a feature Twitter used to have before […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/mashable-how-to-self-verify-on-bluesky/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Mashable: How to self-verify on Bluesky | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#bluesky#DNS#howto
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, identify-verification technology startup says it will begin expanding to the US starting May 1 and will launch a phone-like hardware device by next year. Those changes—and a promised World-branded debit card—signal the company’s ambitions to develop a “super app”—a goal shared by Elon Musk.

Altman and Alex Blania, a German physics researcher, announced at an event in San Francisco Wednesday evening that their venture-backed company, Tools for Humanity, is updating its “World” products to include a new, smaller, eye-scanning orb. The device-and-app combo scans people’s irises, creates a unique user ID, stores that information on the blockchain, and uses it as a form of identity verification. If enough people adopt the app globally, the thinking goes, it could ostensibly thwart scammers.

Altman has expressed concern about the amount of fakery that new AI tools will enable, including the generative AI tools pioneered by his other startup, OpenAI, which is valued at $300 billion. So the World app, and its hardware component, are Altman’s solution to the problem."

wired.com/story/sam-altman-orb

WIRED · Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the USBy Lauren Goode
#IdentityVerification#Biometrics#FacialRecognition
Daniel Schildt

Blue verification checkmarks arrived at Bluesky:

"During this initial phase, Bluesky is not accepting direct applications for verification. As this feature stabilizes, we’ll launch a request form for notable and authentic accounts interested in becoming verified or becoming trusted verifiers."
bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2

BlueskyA New Form of Verification on Bluesky - BlueskyWe’re introducing a new layer of verification — a user-friendly, easily recognizable badge. Additionally, independent organizations can verify accounts directly through our Trusted Verifiers feature.
#SocialMedia#IdentityVerification
Erik van Straten

🚨 Identity fraud on Mastodon

Just a reminder that there is a lot of identity fraud happening on the internet, increasingly on Mastodon as well.

Often impersonators are easy to detect (like the ones below) - but sometimes existing accounts are taken over by criminals. Always keep in mind that someone on the internet interacting with you may (currently) not be who they claim to be.

This includes my account. If it does not sound like me, it may not be me. Having doubts and double checking are good habits. Reputation (good or bad) is a useful property for knowing who you're dealing with, and to help detect anomalies.

Accounts with a few or 0 followers, and hardly any or just plain pointless toots, may be bots or criminals coming after your money.

If someone appears to only follow random Mastodonts with lots of followers, either they're noobs or they're here with less friendly intentions. If they then start following possibly lonely people, they *may* be trying to gain their attention and trust - maybe for nefarious purposes.

🤔 Recently the following people started following the automated channel mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseu:

Kendal Jenner [1]
Jennifer Aniston [2]
Stephen King [3]
Keanu Reeves [4]
Keanu Reeves [5]

They all abuse the pictures of the real persons they impersonate (they're not just following the Auschwitz Memorial BTW).

[1] mastodon.social/@kendall01/fol
[2] mastodon.social/@Jenniferanist
[3] mastodon.social/@Stevenkvng/fo
[4] mastodon.social/@keanureeves19
[5] mastodon.social/@reeves001/fol (screenshot below)

#IdentityFraud#Impersonation#Authentication
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