A Proposal for Validating People are 18+ Without Privacy Violations

[Arnox]

If this has already been thought of, let me know.

This is a proposed system of mine that can be used to verify (and only verify) that a person is a certain age, in this case, 18+ years of age, and can be applied either federally or on the state level, although some kind of government will have to oversee it.

The system is, once you've been approved for any kind of federal ID that needs your birth certificate to obtain (driver's license, learning permit, plain ID card, etc.), you will get a permanent account to access an online system that generates completely random alphanumeric strings as codes and saves them to a global database. You can only generate about 3-5 codes per month. The government will also run public servers whose only job is to house this global database and take any and all codes it receives from the public and spit out a simple reply. Is the code in the database or not, yes or no? Companies are not allowed to retain verified codes for more than 5 minutes.

"But Arnox, what if there's any breach and codes get leaked?" Simple. Scrap the old database and start a new code database and reset everyone's code regenerations. If the accounts themselves are compromised, just scrap all the old accounts and have everyone make a new account. And if you REALLY want to ensure anonymity, have the company or website verify all codes through a TOR connection or random IPv6 connections.

 

[Lost-Zeneration-99]

That’s a smart idea and could work, but I don’t think it will work without people knowing how technology works. You would have to get the masses to learn tech literacy and good luck with that. I do have a idea and it’s perfect.

If parents would do their job and parent their stupid kids. Then we wouldn’t have to worry about this. The TOR idea is a really good idea that could actually work for creating accounts.

 

[Arnox]

You would have to get the masses to learn tech literacy and good luck with that.

I mean... If this was implemented, they kinda wouldn't have a choice. And besides, it's really not complicated. If they can figure out the DMV, they can certainly figure this out. All they'd have to do is login to their account and then copypaste a code into a field when making an account on a website. Boom, done.

 

[Lost-Zeneration-99]

I agree with you, and to us it is simple as putting a code in. You would be surprised though on how people are hostile towards something as simple as that. I mean some people get mad when they have to use simple common sense security practices, like sending a check in a secure format.

Now I do like the idea of making them have to learn how to do basic security stuff. I always been a proponent of making people troubleshoot something simple so they will learn the technology. I do wonder why is troubleshooting not taught in school for the younger crowd? It would help them out in life, like say financial learning or hell even cooking class.

 

[Dragonwinged]

Yesterday I tried to log in to my parent's Disney Plus account to watch the new Maul series. When I showed my dad that it requested that they change the password, he said that he wasn't going to do that. Even though it will likely force him to change the password the next time he tries to login. I use a paycheck app that forces me to change the password every six months, even though I login to the app using an unchanging pin. The constant change is what people are against. They want a one and done solution, not constantly having to take responsibility for their own security. The issue is, those same lazy people are likely the ones for ensuring the database is secure. And when it gets cracked, it could take days for anyone in charge to find out, and by that timen everyone's personal info have likely already been leaked.