{"podcast":{"title":"Lock and Code","slug":"lock-and-code-112850","podcast_index_feed_id":112850,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/lock-and-code/","website_url":"https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/category/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/3f215aa3-b1b3-45b6-8738-ac92b2482318/Lock-and-Code-Logo-2025-Refresh.png","author":"Malwarebytes","episode_count":161,"summary":"Lock and Code tells the human stories within cybersecurity, privacy, and technology. Rogue robot vacuums, hacked farm tractors, and catastrophic software vulnerabilities—it’s all here.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lock-and-code-112850"},"episode":{"title":"“The worst thing” for online rights: An age-restricted grey web (feat. Jason Kelley)","slug":"the-worst-thing-for-online-rights-an-age-restricted-grey-web-feat-jason-kelley","published_at":"2025-08-10T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lock-and-code-112850/the-worst-thing-for-online-rights-an-age-restricted-grey-web-feat-jason-kelley","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lock-and-code-112850","url":"https://lock-and-code.captivate.fm/episode/the-worst-thing-for-online-rights-an-age-restricted-grey-web-feat-jason-kelley","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/e30cd9bd-3bd9-4f3e-a869-f6a01873f09d.mp3","summary":"The internet is cracking apart. It’s exactly what some politicians want. In June, a Texas law that requires age verification on certain websites withstood a legal challenge brought all the way to the US Supreme Court. It could be a blueprint for how the internet will change very soon. The law,  titled HB 1181  and passed in 2023, places new requirements on websites that portray or depict “sexual material harmful to minors.” With the law, the owners or operators of websites that contain images or videos or illustrations or descriptions that “more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors” must now verify the age of their website’s visitors, at least in Texas. Similarly, this means that Texas residents visiting adult websites (or websites meeting the “one-third” definition) must now go through some form of online age verification to watch adult content. The law has obvious appeal from some groups, which believe that, similar to how things like alcohol and tobacco are age-restricted in the US, so, too, should there be age restrictions on pornography online. But many digital rights advocates believe that online age verification is different because the current methods used for online age verification could threaten privacy, security, and anonymity online. As Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF,  wrote in June : “A person who submits identifying information online can never be sure if websites will keep that information or how that information might be used or disclosed. This leaves users highly vulnerable to data breaches and other security harms.” Despite EFF’s warnings, this age-restricted reality has already  arrived in the UK , where residents are being  age-locked out of increasingly more online services  because of…","meta_description":"The internet is cracking apart. It’s exactly what some politicians want. In June, a Texas law that requires age verification on certain websites withstood…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2431,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lock-and-code-112850/episodes/the-worst-thing-for-online-rights-an-age-restricted-grey-web-feat-jason-kelley/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lock-and-code-112850/the-worst-thing-for-online-rights-an-age-restricted-grey-web-feat-jason-kelley.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}