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I cannot up-vote this more. Many people don't realise that they don't own their phone number! It is possible to own a phone number but it is not widely availab
by _pdp_ 8y ago
I cannot up-vote this more.
Many people don't realise that they don't own their phone number! It is possible to own a phone number but it is not widely available just like domains are. Hence it is a stupid idea to use it as an identity.
- jfornear 8y agoI recently learned this the hard way. I changed my phone number after moving cities, and AT&T just leased my old number to someone else!
- Tijdreiziger 8y agoThere is a finite supply of numbers. Not recycling old numbers and just throwing them in a hole forever wouldn't be very prudent.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoThere is an infinite supply of numbers. You can just add extra digits. Mobile phone numbers used to be 8 digits in NZ, then became 9 digits when they needed more numbers.
- cbluth 8y agoNumbers aren't limited to the amount you can count, there will always be more.
- manigandham 8y agoWhat did you expect was going to happen?
- Fnoord 8y agoI'd expect it to be reused _eventually_; not right away though.
- tribler 8y agoWith a self-sovereign identity, you are in control. Our IETF draft + running code: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-01#section-4.2 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-01#sec... Our goverment even sponsors this work. Decentral, no need for Russian servers.