Topic: How to verify a person's DOB without private information - page 2. (Read 2601 times)

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The idea came to me when I was announcing my birthday and asking for donations. Someone called me me a hoax. Asking for proof. Asking for in joking a GPG verification of my DOB.

This got me to thinking.

The only way you can prove your DOB is emailing someone your DL but then you can always spoof your license. Anyone with half a brain can use Gimp with some amount of success.

Or I could go through some age verify site that the porn sites use but that would require me to sign up for a service including giving away my credit card number. Well this is a bad idea too since I can always just swipe a family member's credit card and give it back to them once I am verified.

And if I go to a bar or the store and buy booze, the lady at the counter doesn't ask me how old I am or ask for ID, I just LOOK over 21. I have seen people that are 35 or 40 and STILL look like a child and then I have seen the other way around. But still this method of "look like" works in many cases.

A lot of the methods of a age verification is based on trust. So why did the user on here not trust and take my word for it that it was indeed my birthday. It says so right on my profile and I stated in the post on the same day that it was my birthday.

Even the idea of the GPG key in OTC to PROVE that I am who I say I am still does not prove a number of things that a driver's license should and without a doubt I am who I say I am. GPG keys can be spoofed. I can create a new identity out of the thin air tomorrow. Come up with a new user name, email address, GPG key, sign up for OTC, get some posts going on, make a few light trades and presto, I am a new person.

So.... back to the age verification issue. How would one prove to someone their actual age without using any of the existing instruments used today and not blow their anonymous?

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