{"slug": "bypassing-on-camera-age-verification-checks", "title": "Bypassing On-Camera Age-Verification Checks", "summary": "Some AI-based video age-verification systems can be bypassed using a fake mustache, according to a report. The systems are primarily designed to de-anonymize critics and enable governments to deny platform access under the pretext of age checks, rather than actually keeping minors out of adult spaces.", "body_md": "Bypassing On-Camera Age-Verification Checks\nSome AI-based video age-verification checks can be fooled with a fake mustache.\nSome AI-based video age-verification checks can be fooled with a fake mustache.\nK.S • May 15, 2026 8:49 AM\nThe primary purpose of these checks is not age verification; they are intended to de-anonymize critics and enable governments to deny access to online platforms with a convenient pretext. Canada attempted de-banking protesters, but that was eventually ruled illegal. As such, complete failure to keep minors out of adult space is not at all surprising, as this is not the ultimate goal.\nAfter Age-check comes Male-Check and White-Check\nblack goose • May 15, 2026 11:00 AM\nthe powers that be just want cameras up your ass and nanobots in your brain\nthey won’t stop until they achieve these goals.\nfk humanity and fk the moderation queue\njust be honest it’s a burn bag not a queue\nwiperz • May 15, 2026 11:01 AM\nMKULTRA never ended. Neither did COINTELPRO.\nwhite goose • May 15, 2026 11:06 AM\nSilicon Valley Wants to Put a Chip in Your Brain\nfk them I will not comply. They can put me to death that’s just fine with me fk this world.\nwhite goose • May 15, 2026 11:06 AM\nSilicon Valley Wants to Put a Chip in Your Brain\nfk them I will not comply. They can put me to death that’s just fine with me fk this world.\nblue goose • May 15, 2026 11:11 AM\nstupid TOO MANY REQUESTS message leads to double posting fix the blog please\nClive Robinson • May 15, 2026 11:15 AM\n@ ALL,\nThis is not the “first step”…\nIt requires Client Side Scanning that will be AI augmented and a way to make Zero Knowledge Proofs better.\nLast summer this paper was posted,\nhttps://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1296\nGödel in Cryptography: Effectively Zero-Knowledge Proofs for NP with No Interaction, No Setup, and Perfect Soundness\nRahul Ilango, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n“A zero-knowledge proof demonstrates that a fact (like that a Sudoku puzzle has a solution) is true while, counterintuitively, revealing nothing else (like what the solution actually is). This remarkable guarantee is extremely useful in cryptographic applications, but it comes at a cost. A classical impossibility result by Goldreich and Oren [J. Cryptol. ’94] shows that zero-knowledge proofs must necessarily sacrifice basic properties of traditional mathematical proofs — namely perfect soundness (that no proof of a false statement exists) and non-interactivity (that a proof can be transmitted in a single message).\nContrary to this impossibility, we show that zero-knowledge with perfect soundness and no interaction is effectively possible. We do so by defining and constructing a powerful new relaxation of zero-knowledge. Intuitively, while the classical zero-knowledge definition requires that an object called a simulator actually exists, our new definition only requires that one cannot rule out that a simulator exists (in a particular logical sense). Using this, we show that **every falsifiable security property of (classical) zero-knowledge can be achieved with no interaction, no setup, and perfect soundness.** This enables us to remove interaction and setup from (classical) zero-knowledge in essentially all of its applications in the literature, at the relatively mild cost that such applications now have security that is “game-based” instead of “simulation-based.”“\nNote what the title and abstract say with regards,\n1, No Interaction\n2, No Setup\n3, Perfect Soundness\nThree of the basic four[1] failings of current Zero Knowledge Proofs (it implicitly removes the fourth as well).\nThis has all sorts of benefits for those in an authoritative position with regards the likes of “age proof” etc.\nI was wondering why what was published a year ago was suddenly getting interest in less technical and more mainstream reporting,\n[1] The fourth failing often gets missed when talking about current Zero Knowledge Proofs which is the generation of randomness by the querying system. If the queries made are not random but predictable it opens up a number of security issues in current Zero Knowledge Proofs.\ngreen goose • May 15, 2026 11:16 AM\ncan’t you simply use this site?\nhttps://thispersondoesnotexist.com/\nthat should fool them\ncan you imagine what it's like??? • May 15, 2026 11:46 AM\n@ white goose,\n“Someone you work with will get it first. And you’ll hold out for a while, the way you did with the smartphone. But eventually, you won’t,” said Phoenix, dressed in all black with a tiny mic attached to his ear. “The advantages of integration will be hard to compete with.”\nThe masses will adopt it as they creep it in through soap operas, popular geek shows, and more.\nsweet tasty brain drippings • May 15, 2026 11:54 AM\nHacking Hard Drive Firmware\nhttps://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/hacking-hard-drive-firmware/\nYou probably flash new firmware on a variety of devices regularly, even though that’s rare for non-technical types. But what about your hard drive firmware? Most of us don’t want to touch our operating drives, so unless you are dealing with surplus drives or have a special project in mind, you may not think much about the firmware running your spinning rust storage. [I Code 4 Coffee] uses hard drives in an unusual way to exploit Xbox 360s, and wound up reverse engineering some drive firmware with an eye to making changes.\nThe analysis started with three hard drives and an SSD. Looking for people who’ve done similar work wasn’t as productive as you might think. There isn’t much call for modifying hard drive firmware, and what data there is can be outdated.\nOne thing that was available was firmware dumps taken with a PC-3000 data recovery tool. What follows is a deep dive down the hard drive rabbit hole. There are backdoor vendor commands and connections to the diagnostic RS-232 port on some drives. You can find the technical artifacts on GitHub.\nWe learned a few things, and we bet you will too. Another way to get into the hard drive’s firmware is via JTAG.\nlurker • May 15, 2026 3:00 PM\n@sweet tasty\nPeter Norton knew a lot about hard drive drivers for Macintosh, until Symantic bought him out with an NDA and dumped his product.\nNitram • May 15, 2026 4:04 PM\n@lurker\n…until Symantic bought him out with an NDA and dumped his product.\nThey sure did! IMO, Symantec corresponds to “how to destroy fantastic software”.\nClive Robinson • May 15, 2026 4:44 PM\n@ sweet tasty, lurker,\nWith regards “spining rust” the microcontrollers can be quite problematic.\nSome time ago I had reason to get “down and dirty” with an IDE hard drive and I was actually quite shocked by what I found…\nLets just say the total compute power was probably more than the motherboard CPU.\nI discouvered that the microcontroller chip had three ARM CPU’s with a big chunk of shared memory.\nThe code written into it you could get access to via the J-Tag but it was somewhat difficult to get your head around. As in some respects it appeared it had been deliberately written to use “race conditions” as a part of it’s functioning.\nEventually I found that there were calls that were “high level function” for assembler code, but effectively low level for the motherboard OS Drivers.\nWhilst I tracked things down on the hardware I had, the same model number drive but with a different manufacturing date had the equivalent of “start from scratch” new assembler and interface routines. The only thing that remained more or less the same was the “IDE interface standard” high level hooks. All the “factory level stuff” had changed in some way.\nSo my advice,\n“Get a long pole with a sharp point at one end and ‘poke it with care'”.\nOtherwise the ride could be more than wild…\nJon • May 15, 2026 10:54 PM\n@ Clive Robinson\nThere’s a legend about an engineer who discovered that by far the fastest CPU for running his simulations was the controlling processor for the office laser printer. So he wrote up a quick script to offload the processing there – only to be later informed that while his simulations were running, nobody in the office could print!\nAfter some application priorities were re-ordered, all was well: Just an example of how much processing power there can be in otherwise innocuous accessories.\nJ.\nRontea • May 16, 2026 9:54 AM\nAs with all security measures, the question isn’t whether you can make it difficult for honest users — it’s whether the system can withstand the creativity of attackers. Right now, the attackers are 12 years old with a makeup pencil, and they’re winning.\nSubscribe to comments on this entry\nSidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bypassing-on-camera-age-verification-checks", "canonical_source": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/bypassing-on-camera-age-verification-checks.html", "published_at": "2026-05-15 11:06:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-18 06:03:14.927814+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": [], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bypassing-on-camera-age-verification-checks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bypassing-on-camera-age-verification-checks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bypassing-on-camera-age-verification-checks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bypassing-on-camera-age-verification-checks.jsonld"}}