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		bakugo 86 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Denmark's government aims to ban access to social ... How does the site verify that the ID being used for verification is the ID of the person that is actually using the account? How does the site verify that a valid ID was used at all? If the app is open source, what stops someone from modifying it to always claim the user is over 18 without an ID?

Semaphor 86 days ago [–]

Not that I understand it, but AFAIK that's cryptography doing it's thing.

And using someone else's Id and password is the same as every method of auth

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