@catsalad@infosec.exchange no but I sure have decreased it by a lot!

@malwaretech@infosec.exchange That makes sense.

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social This is right on par with a YouTube video I saw many years ago of someone complaining that the Teletubbies were communist propaganda.

@Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social Shouldn't the pilot be focused on making sure the flight is safe. If it's dangerous to use your phone while taking ground transit, it's certainly dangerous in the sky!

@paco@infosec.exchange I agree we have to take things with a very careful approach. I don't think leaving content on the internet that could cause developmental harm and past generational trauma is a good idea to expose minors to. If age verification is just too risky then our next option is to conseuer the content. Removing the ease of access to harmful content such as pornography is an alternative we could consider. We could pass strict liability laws that can't be bypassed and include personal criminal liability to board members of data is breached. The status quo of clicking a yes im 18, would be like a gas station selling alcohol to teens and asking y'all are 21 right wink-wink! Some has to change and that's either safely verifying age over the internet and if that's not possible then removing it from the internet n I will close with the fact that to open a bank account online you have to provide your drivers licenses ID number and your social security number, if banks can do it securely so can the rest of the world.

@paco@infosec.exchange I don’t understand why operating system developers aren’t required to implement age verification. Apple, Microsoft, and Google could coordinate a standard that passes age group data to websites without revealing identities. It makes no sense for every app or site to handle this alone. Linux and Firefox users could use Google’s web service linked to their accounts. Problem solved. Everyone wins. Only these companies have the security scale to manage threats in real time.

@ottaross@mastodon.social I think this is a step in the right direction. There is some demand for AI products that promise more privacy.

Assuming that DuckDuckGo is running their own LLM or even paying OpenAI or similar for the API and assuming that OpenAI or whoever acts in good-faith and doesn't save chat contents and assuming DuckDuckGo doesn't share information about you it's a nice to have feature.

This does however mean sharing every search query to an AI company which is concerning. Google already has your search query so adding an AI answer doesn't share your data with anyone, but for DuckDuckGo this is a transfer of personal information which is a biger issue.

Maybe a better alternative would for it to be opt-in and you'll be prompted at the top of your first search to "Enable AI Features" or "No, don't ask me again (you can always change in settings."