IT Milk: entry

Like always, I am learning something new over at SEOmoz, like the fact that Rebecca is a Korean. Rebecca, in her “Roundup Thursday,” links to an article about Google heeding to the web censorship request of the South Korean government. Now Korean netizens must type in their names and social security numbers before being able to search adult content on Google.

This social security number identification system has been a long established presence in Korea to verify the 19-years-or-older restriction for porn sites. I remember those halcyon days when my adventurous endeavors to look at naked ladies would be coldly blocked by a black wall of doom with a big red 19. But there is a critical 2-part weakness to this system, which I will discuss below.

The intention of this Google implementation is to block another gateway to porn for South Korea’s horny youngsters. I can personally attest to the fact that Koreans probably have a higher sex drive than any other organism on the planet. The only problem is that most of that emotional energy is channeled to handball instead of baseball (wink) because of the conservative nature of Korean culture. So the rate of exposure to porn among male teenagers in Korea is just phenomenal, and you know how addictive porn can be. Are you a new generation male Korean in Korea? I can guarantee you that you are a porn addict. Don’t lie, asshole.

Besides the inherent genetic horniness of Koreans, the state of Korean technology encourages the domination of the adult industry. My parents, who live in Korea, just upgraded their standard subscription DSL line to 100 Mbps download speed. Compare that to my seemingly ultra-blazing 6 Mbps cable subscription with my local provider here in Pennsylvania. This ultra internet speed is great for the national broadband infrastructure, but it is also a porn surfer’s dream. I would imagine that this would eliminate any lingering wait time for those huge high-quality WMV files of hardcore Japanese rape porn. On the other hand, if the information technology of Korea were not so advanced, it would make approaching porn more intimidating, since the download and lag times would discourage the thrashing of the male organ.

Now, here are the 2 problems that I discovered from the social security number verification system. The first problem is a major security risk: it makes phishing so damn easy. Desperate guys who want to quickly blow their loads will type in their name and social security number into any form that pops up, as long as it doesn’t ask them to pay. And since the SS# identification is standard practice, you generally wouldn’t check for the legitimacy of the site (which is difficult to do in the first place) and you wouldn’t think twice about it.

If you are a professional phisher who loves to steal personal information, you must expand your operations to Korean websites because your conversion rate will skyrocket. Your next problem will be figuring out what to do with the thousands of stolen identities. Sell them to the Malaysians and Filipinos who are dying to illegally enter Korean borders.

The second flaw with this SS# system is that it is so easy bypass. If you are teenager in Korea, you literally have to be mentally retarded to not be able to figure out how to steal one of your parent’s social security numbers. Plus, it’s so damn easy to remember: (6 digits representing your birth date) (dash) (another 6 digits of random numbers). Then you could bypass Google Korea and all the Korean porn sites with the easily stolen identification of your parent. Imagine hunting for MILFs as your mother.