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We should be able to apply security technologies to online discourse. Theoretically it should be possible to separate real identity from virtual identity: mayb
by makecheck 9y ago
We should be able to apply security technologies to online discourse. Theoretically it should be possible to separate real identity from virtual identity: maybe I publish a bunch of stuff in such a way that no one can ever figure out who I am but anyone can verify that a series of different comments/articles/etc. were all made by the same person. Then you could decide to follow people who publish things that interest you without having any feasible way to identify them (you can’t fire them, you can’t meet them, etc.).
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- maxlybbert 9y agoThis is easy to do: add a cryptographic signature to your blog posts (you can use a self-signed cert; the signature just proves that the person who signed various documents had control of the private key in a particular key pair). I think the only obstacle is convincing readers that there's some value in having that digital signature.