GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS (discuss.grapheneos.org)

UK now, but that train is never late..

Might as well report all users of internet to authorities for using internet because internet can also be used to commit fraud.

I'm done for once the authorities know I have an account on HACKER News.

I would take "automatically reported to the authorities" with a pinch of salt (in this sphere, "nudging" people with lies is de rigueur [0]).

Not that I'm arguing the UK isn't accelerating further into an authoritarian nightmare.

[0] Kinda related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_Insights_Team

A friend of mine told me that Yoti is used as an age verification system in so many porn websites. That’s such an issue, this information should never be owned by private companies.

I guess this user gets to sue Sony for a full refund.

If anything, from an age-verification perspective those using GrapheneOS are probably more likely to be adults, mentally mature, or otherwise smarter than the average sheeple.

- Heavy censorship

- Two-tier justice system

- This

How did it come to this? The UK is arguably the country that has done the most for the cause of freedom, having led the way in abolishing slavery.

This is not how authorities work.

They need to prove people guilty, not flag all “suspicious activity” then let people prove they are innocent.

Someone in the comments of that post linked to a long FAQ section for GrapheneOS about how apps can identify it and so forth [1]. I don't understand why it doesn't just attempt to spoof that's it's stock Android/Google everywhere it possibly can?

[1] https://grapheneos.org/faq#:~:text=Apps%20can%20detect%20tha...

OI mate, you got a loicense for that operating system?

The only surprising thing about this story is that the user didn't get a visit by the police to be charged with a "non-crime cybersecurity incident". The UK has become such a shithole.

That response looks like it is generated from boilerplate, so the 'reported to the authorities' part is as likely true as when sudo says the same thing.

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A new age of piracy is ahead of us. When they come crying about "revenue", these days will be remembered.

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It's really scary how society is being 'nudged' into using 'authorised devices' to participate in society (which we have to pay for, lol).

I wonder if some ideology which believes in tech freedom will become the communism of the next age, and prompt a new wave of 'democracy' purity crusades.

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Any insights on what Yoti is or what might motivate them to take those moronic actions?

It's so surprising that despute so many screams "China" in western media in the last 15 years, it happens in the west, but in China it's free to use any OS without any negative consequences. Why? What's going on?

People often critisize the USA - rightfully so, now as the orange king and his cronies rule over it - but the UK is in some ways worse. One of the best things that happened in the last years was BREXIT; that way the craziness from the UK can no longer taint other Europeans. And that's actually a good thing. Age sniffing is done for appeasement to corporate overlords; people should not buy into the propaganda that this is "to protect the kids". It is so obvious at this point in time - the amount of money spent by lobbyists must be insane, and the UK is the easiest to fall victim here, even before the USA. Evil companies such as Yoti need to be disbanded at once - either by the state, or by the people if the state has already been bribed into obedient submission to private, particular interests.

Seems like this company got fined recently for breaching GDPR: https://www.ictrecht.nl/en/blog/leeftijdsverificatie-online-...

>The Spanish privacy regulator (hereinafter: AEPD) recently imposed a fine of €950,000 on age verification service YOTI

>For the unlawful processing of biometric personal data in violation of Article 9 of the GDPR, YOTI was fined €500,000. In addition, a fine of €200,000 was imposed for obtaining invalid consent in violation of Article 7 of the GDPR. Finally, the company was fined €250,000 for exceeding retention periods in violation of Article 5 of the GDPR

This is totally unacceptable. But going to the hassle of running GrapheneOS and then using it to try and submit facial scans to combine your identity with your PSN account just seems so pointless.

And now he's going to jail for using an alternative os or what?

I don't like this post, it will be reported to the authorities and my mommy.

The question is which category of justice does it qualify?

Looking more closely into the claim, the actual message from Yoti was:

"Due to past security concerns, Yoti automatically flags multiple verification attempts and any devices running GrapheneOS. These instances are automatically reported to both the authorities and our security team."

Then:

"Unfortunately, as multiple attempts were made from this specific device, your account has been flagged for suspicious activity."

So the "and" looks like a typo, otherwise their system wouldn't have allowed more than one attempt from a GrapheneOS device to begin with.

i.e. multiple verification attempts from a GrapheneOS device will flag your account.