Do these people not have advisors?
I realise our government is entirely made up of technologically inept morons inventing ludicrous policies based on nothing but their misguided beliefs of what is achievable but how is it that there appears to be no halfway competent backroom staff steering them?
Even a few minutes consideration of this idea would surely highlight massive technical hurdles (alongside the ludicrousness of suggesting people effectively upload selfies to porn sites of themselves getting down to business). How, for example, are they proposing to address the question of hardware trust? Ie, any facial recognition system based on cameras that can be controlled by the end user is surely destined for failure. Even where the camera itself can’t simply be spoofed (ie a virtual device playing non-stop footage of the fuckwit who came up with this policy), most systems require specialised hardware to avoid simple subversion by holding up a 2D image / video. Are they proposing porn can only be watched on a device equipped with such a camera already? Or will government issued ones be available on request?
And I wasn’t even going to mention VPNs (or good old fashioned piracy).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
