[rpigab]

I have a categorical swipe to make, sadly this is a human problem, and attempts to solve it using technology are doomed to fail or to be increasingly complex and require endless modifications.

Your solution sounds good and should work fine, and be easy to implement, which is perfect! But people will soon wonder what all the elderly people that are living in retirement homes without internet access are doing on porn sites watching mostly the overwatch and fortnite cosplay themed videos...

[Nevermark]

I am having trouble understanding how that is a swipe.

If you are pointing out that the technical solution I proposed isn't perfect, that children may steal their older family members identities, I agree.

As noted, imperfection is a common, unhelpful argument, against improvement. However, identifying imperfections is constructive, if the point is to continue to solve problems. (Kids stealing identities isn't great for many reasons.)

[rpigab]

I can't prove that there are no technical solutions to this kind of problems, but it certainly feels like so (to me).

It's like electronic voting, you can have the best cryptography hardware and software in the world, if the end user does not understand at least on a surface level how it works, it will be vulnerable against manipulation. You can certainly keep the same system and educate all users, but that's a whole other class of problem.

[baobun]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247515