{"id":24305,"date":"2024-04-15T18:47:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T02:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/news-18035\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:47:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T02:47:31","slug":"news-18035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/news-18035\/","title":{"rendered":"Porn panic imperils privacy online, with Alec Muffett (re-air): Lock and Code S05E08"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This week on the Lock and Code podcast\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A digital form of protest could become the go-to response for the world\u2019s largest porn website as it faces increased regulations: Not letting people access the site.<\/p>\n<p>In March, PornHub blocked access to visitors connecting to its website from Texas. It marked the second time in the past 12 months that the porn giant shut off its website to protest new requirements in online age verification.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas law, which was signed in June 2023, requires several types of adult websites to verify the age of their visitors by either collecting visitors\u2019 information from a government ID or relying on a third party to verify age through the collection of multiple streams of data, such as education and employment status.<\/p>\n<p>PornHub has long argued that these age verification methods do not keep minors safer and that they place undue onus on websites to collect and secure sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>The fact remains, however, that these types of laws are growing in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Lock and Code revisits a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/podcast\/2023\/05\/identity-crisis-featuring-alec-muffett-lock-and-code-s04e11\">prior episode from 2023 with guest Alec Muffett<\/a>, discussing online age verification proposals, how they could weaken security and privacy on the internet, and whether these efforts are oafishly trying to solve a societal problem with a technological solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe battle cry of these people have has always been\u2014either directly or mocked as being\u2014\u2019Could somebody think of the children?\u2019\u201d Muffett said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m thinking about the children because I want my daughter to grow up with an untracked, secure private internet when she\u2019s an adult. I want her to be able to have a private conversation. I want her to be able to browse sites without giving over any information or linking it to her identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Muffett continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to protect that for her. I\u2019d like to see more people grasping for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <cite>Alec Muffett<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tune in today to listen to the full conversation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Show notes and credits:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Intro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (<a href=\"http:\/\/incompetech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incompetech.com<\/a>)<br \/>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/<\/a><br \/>Outro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n<p><strong>Listen up\u2014Malwarebytes doesn\u2019t just talk cybersecurity, we provide it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protect yourself from online attacks that threaten your identity, your files, your system, and your financial well-being with our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/try.malwarebytes.com\/lockandcode\/\">exclusive offer for Malwarebytes Premium for Lock and Code listeners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/podcast\/2024\/04\/porn-panic-imperils-privacy-online-with-alec-muffett-re-air-lock-and-code-s05e08\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we re-air an episode with guest Alec Muffett about online age verification. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[31269,5820,6675,997,30720],"class_list":["post-24305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-age-verification","tag-podcast","tag-pornhub","tag-texas","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}