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Confirmed identity with the service would resolve this.
by m1sta_ 10y ago
Confirmed identity with the service would resolve this.
- ticviking 10y agoAnd result in a rich trove of rich identities to be stolen.
- brian-armstrong 10y agoThis isn't necessarily true. If world governments could use their records to create an OAuth-like service, you could uniquely verify citizenship without giving away personally identifying information
- TheRealDunkirk 10y agoShall I go ahead and start the over/under pool on how long it would take before it was hacked? I think it's a compelling idea, but it would probably be the most-interesting target in the world.
- doctorless 10y agoI think a singular, required identity service on the Internet is one of the greatest threats to free speech.
- chillwaves 10y agohow about a voluntary one? Let people be authenticated and let people see how many followers are authenticated or not.
- brian-armstrong 10y agoDepends on how it's implemented. As always, the devil's in the details. If it were properly sandboxed, it seems it shouldn't require anything more than the government's unique ID eg a Social Security Number as a backing for tokens granted. In that regard it wouldn't be any more juicy than any other common store of SSNs, of which there are sadly quite a few. You would presumably be able to use this information to de-anonymize previously created tokens, but that would require you to gain access to the token as used, which would also require a breach of Twitter or whoever else. It's not unthinkable, but if Twitter is breached you might have enough info to de-anonymize its users anyway.
- Implicated 10y agoRight, and even after years of this, they've chosen not to do that. Nor require even a confirmed email address. Twitter is arguably built to be a spam platform. Streaming API? oh man...