Persona, VrChat's Age Verification partner, has a backdoor.
Persona, VrChat's Age Verification partner, has a backdoor.
the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
Not gonna lie, feeling pretty vindicated right now. Persona's source code was just accessed and reviewed, and inspection showed that there are backdoors through their entire system for several different justice agencies. I haven't read through the entire article yet, only up to section 0x0A, but this is a nightmare.
To give some examples, users of Persona are gauged by, "Is this person a politically exposed person," comprehensive profiles of their users identifying information, scans against photos scraped from the internet to match if you are the one in that photo.
I know, the mentality "They already know everything about you" is out there, but dude this is really, really bad. Worse than what I was imagining, and everyone who used Persona for verification has just given their service all these connections.