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The Boundaries of Westphalia
- fnovd 10y agoDigital identities are predicated on a having free internet. The digital world may be a more free place, but servers and network infrastructure must exist in a physical, territorially-managed world. Doing away with your birth certificate in favor of an online-only identity just gives power to the owner of the lines you use to connect to the world and the enterprises responsible for maintaining your online identity service.
- Animats 10y agoThis seems to be an ad for "onename.com". It's amusing to see Cato behind this. "onename.com" is close to the limit for a site which provides no information about what it does until you sign up. What it seems to do is tie your Facebook, Github, and Twitter logins together and log them on the Bitcoin blockchain. You can then send Bitcoins to others who have signed up. (But you have to give a Bitcoin address, which seems to defeat the whole point.) There's no email address validation. I just signed up "uce@ftc.gov", where the FTC collects spam. If someone could figure out a way so that people could create only one digital identity, that would be quite useful. Most of the trouble with spam in all its forms comes from the ability to create unlimited identities very cheaply. But this doesn't do that.