Verisign Develops Token for Age Verification

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday September 24, 2004 @12:04AM from the plugging-in dept.

FirstTimeCaller writes "A Reuters article is reporting that Verisign in conjunction with an unnamed children's safety group, will release a USB token that can be plugged into a PC to verify the age and gender of a person participating in online chat rooms. According to the article, the token will be available free to students in a handful of schools this fall. School administrators will provide a list of students, with their ages and genders, and VeriSign will encode that information onto the tokens."

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Sending it to colleges? by P-Frank · 2004-09-24 00:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Excellent! I figure by about noon tomorrow I'll download a patch that "officially" makes me a 16 year old girl.
Re:Oh noes! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-24 00:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Baby, before I put my hot love stick into you, please insert your USB stick into my PocketPC for age verification.
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