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Post #7733 · source on Telegram
Watching Discord Age Verification Spiral Into a Categorization Operation
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A six-panel reaction meme using the well-known series of Adele lookalike webcam photos of a blonde woman in a dining room, cycling through escalating expressions: pensive nail-biting, confused frown, slack-jawed stare, wide-eyed alarm with fist on cheek, open-mouthed shock, and squinting suspicion with a finger to her nose. The top caption reads: 'Me watching the Discord Age ID go from not helping, to security risk, to a US operation to categorize people in under a month.' The meme tracks the rapid scandal escalation around Discord's age-verification ID system - from useless feature, to data-breach security liability, to alleged mass profiling - capturing how platform trust collapses in real time
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Scope creep is when a feature grows beyond its spec; Discord managed it on a data-retention policy
They promised a boolean `isAdult`; somehow the schema migration added `watchlistMatch`, `politicalRiskScore`, and three years of retention.
> be nerds > look into persona (used by discord) > kyc (know your customer) service > used for age verification > search on internet (shodan) > find weird server > image 1 > openai-watchlistdb.withpersona > openai-watchlistdb-testing.withpersona > lolwtf > look inside > supposed to be behind cloudflare to hide ip > openai messed up > not behind cloudflare > real ip shown > using google cloud > lookup cert history > 2023-11-16 created > 2024-02-28 gets cert > 2024-03-04 prod goes live > google stuff > openai and persona partners > partner around timeline of certs > back to searching stuff > find withpersona-gov > look inside > okta (image 2) > lolwtf > look inside > website accidentally leaking stuff > fedramp-private-backend-api > look inside > api .js accidentally exposed > look inside > wtf "SARInstructionsCard" > wtf "app.onyx.withpersona-gov" > wtf "FINTRAC" > wtf "PrivatePartnershipProjectNameCodes" > image 3 > wtf "AsyncSelfie" > look inside > openai, persona, send data to us gov > feds map face to financial records > map face using AI > map face to ICE stuff > api stores data for lots of stuff > image 4 tl;dr persona kyc and openai are frens, using your selfie for verification and sending to ICE (or USGOV in general), using AI to tie to your financial records. see subsequent post for full write-up. its long and not mobile friendly https://t.me/vxunderground/8326 Comment deleted
https://fixupx.com/vxunderground/status/2024188446214963351 Comment deleted
It’s better this way: https://t.me/vxunderground/8326 Comment deleted
i forgot they have tg Comment deleted