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Do you have an alternative to authentication?
by SpelingBeeChamp 6y ago
Do you have an alternative to authentication?
- dredmorbius 6y agoI did, I'd be rich. The problem is clearly pretty deep. One posibility is that it's inherently inconsistent with a deep, high speed, long range, high bandwidth data regime. We live in a universe where all of us are ventriloquists, or may be ventriloquist dummies. There's the questions of what identity is, and its distinction from identifiers or assertions of identity. There is the matter of when you do or do not need to assert orverify a specific long-term identity, and when you do. When identifiers require a close 1:1 mapping, and when they don't. Of what the threat models and failure. modes of strong vs. weak authentication schemes are. And ultimately of why we find ourselves (individually, collectively, playing specific roles, aligned or opposed with convention, the majority, or other interests) desiring either strongly identified or pseudonymous / anonymouus interactions. Easy or facile mechanisms have fared poorly. Abuses and dysfunctions emerge unexpectedly. It's complicated.