SMillerNL

Seems like it would have been a good moment to split the database from the many web servers and reduce the single point of failure.

Also, do you really want everyone in your wedding photos to be staring at their phone to take pictures?

The decision was made according to the report after the Commission became aware of the group’s existence last month and deemed the risk of compromise too high. While there is no evidence yet that communication has actually been intercepted, the threat situation has escalated.

What’s to stop people from providing that service to buy people alcohol?

For an implementation to work, it should: * Let the service know that the user is an adult by providing a verifiable proof of adulthood (eg. A proof that’s signed by a trusted authority/government) * Not let the service know any other information about the user besides what they already learn through http or TCP/IP *

Seems like that’s exactly what https://yivi.app/en/ can do.

https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/ has a good overview how bad it really is