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The master plan of the entire real names thing juuuuust landed.
by coding123 7y ago
The master plan of the entire real names thing juuuuust landed.
- arpa 7y agoHi! My real name is Myfronds Callmeh Mahhname. Of course I can provide my national id for identity check, dear facebook. It's issued by proud nation of Djibouti. Problem is, however, if you actually use facebook, it is trivial to get your real identity from your vanilla friend network, not to mention that one of them is bound to fuck up and tag you in their selfie.
- dredmorbius 7y agoYou're ... a little late to that realisation, though I only learnt of this a little over a year ago myself as Google+ was shutting down. The project was called NSTIC: National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Alex Howard of O'Reilly's Radar had one of the most comprehensive explorations I've seen "A Manhattan Project for online identity: A look at the White House's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace." http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/nstic-analysis-identity-privacy.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/nstic-analysis-identity-pri... The relationship with Google+ itself was spelled out by Kristine Schachinger at Searchengine Journal: "In Memoriam: The Rise, Fall & Death of Google Plus" Google was only going to be one of many identity service providers for a program run by the Federal Government called the NSTIC, or National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-history-death/283685/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-history-deat... There were some HN submissions on the topic, but virtually no discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nstic https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nstic