This entire thing is because Vance showed up forst and the other guy didn’t shake hands.

This article is drivel.

The scary part is, since social media age verification was hidden in it… that might not be satire for once.

100% this. The fingerprint is what they use for reidentification.

I’ve spoken to a number of companies in this space while searching for one that uses a ZKP and a user-held VC of the fingerprint vs the server storing it (for use with a Linux Foundation labs project). I ended up rolling my own using FOSS face models.

No, this is single frame, but AVIF works like GIF.

The attacker’s inexperience was also evident in his operational security failures. At one point he asked Claude to help edit his resume, which contained his full name, location, education history, and LinkedIn profile.

Later, while investigating a potential compromise of one of his own hosts, he inadvertently confirmed his home IP address to the agent. Based on this and other corroborating evidence, the researchers believe the attacker to be a young man based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Wow.

A good, free codec for image sequences (uses AV1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF

If your client doesn’t support it, that’s… odd.