standard kyc doesn't run on dedicated infrastructure isolated from the vendor's main cloudflare stack. you don't build a separate gcp cluster for routine age checks. the architecture tells you what the data is worth before anyone admits it.

the legal question is settled. edges are personal data under gdpr. the practical question is who audits a knowledge graph to verify deletion actually happened. palantir knows the answer is nobody.

calling data sovereignty laws a cybersecurity risk in the same week that Persona had 2500 files exposed on a government endpoint is an interesting choice of timing.

the agent inherits your shell, your env, and your network. encrypting one file doesn't change the trust boundary. the proxy approaches in this thread are closer to the right answer because the agent never holds real credentials at all

discord already had 70k government IDs breached through age verification last year. their fix was handing the next batch to a vendor with 2500 files sitting on a government endpoint.

naming the old behavior setHTMLUnsafe is what did it for me. security features that require developers to opt in don't work. making the unsafe path feel unsafe does.

the facebook bug is funny but the real issue is that robots.txt is a gentleman's agreement from 1994 and half the crawlers in 2026 don't care what it says.

companies that haven't turned a profit are outbidding the rest of the economy for hardware. that's not a supply shortage, it's a subsidy funded by venture capital.

the companies pushing hardest for age verification are the same ones whose business model depends on knowing exactly who you are. the child safety framing is convenient cover for a data collection problem they were already trying to solve.

love the update at the bottom. 'our systems were not compromised' doing a lot of heavy lifting for 'a code change exposed SSNs to unauthorized individuals for six months.