[$] Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard

Date:
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:52:50 +0000

Description:
In early March, Dylan M. Taylor submitted a pull request to add a field
to store a user's birth date in systemd's JSON user records . This was done
to allow
applications to store the date to facilitate compliance with age-attestation and
-verification laws. It was to be expected that some members of the community would
object; the actual response, however, has been shockingly hostile. Some of this has
been fueled by a misinformation campaign that has targeted the systemd
project and
Taylor specifically, resulting in Taylor being doxxed and receiving death threats. Such behavior is not just problematic; it is also deeply misguided given the
actual nature of the changes.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064706/


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