Link to video of the hacking: https://xcancel.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044723123287666921
European people find out what Germans already knew about how absolutely ignorant and corrupt VDL is:
Germans: First time?
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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Aren't they alright with it? They're always far-right in governance they elected
Whot?
Germans elect the right, so why would they be concerned?
We already had mandated age verification before this EU thing, and I think it was even strengthened under the SPD, Greens and FDP coalition in 2021 with the Jugendmedienschutzgesetz
The stated goal of age verification is safety, I have only seen evidence that complying will make everyone using the internet less safe.
Neat. Is the author of that piece of engineering known? What subcontractor company made this?
This is the perfect example of how government is the least effective way to do most things.
Government lacks the constraints and risk aversion that smaller groups have - after all it can just pass new laws justifying it's poor choices, and government is largely immune to recrimination or liability.
(Also, fuck this age verification bullshit, of course).
Yet we've seen hundreds of examples of those smaller groups taking even bigger risks, and causing lots and lots of pain for their customers due to carelessness and greed.
But at least those smaller groups also take more money to do the same things the government does, and use those profits to take away control over the government from you and me!
chefs kiss ✊🏼
I have been wanting to get into this shit for years but have never even begun, save for the tryhackme invitation generator.
Maybe I should... Hollywood hacking magic is childsplay compared to the real thing.
Thanks for the debugging!
It's a reference implementation, this stuff is intentional for debug purposes.
Not that I have much faith that final implementations will be secure lol
Reference implementations are often copy and pasted into real products.
what precisely is the point of a reference implementation that isn't good?