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I wonder if you couldn’t have both: a sign in authority that verifies people are people and have not signed up for a site yet, provides tokens, and then other s

I wonder if you couldn’t have both: a sign in authority that verifies people are people and have not signed up for a site yet, provides tokens, and then other sites can use those tokens to let users create anonymous accounts. The sign in authority would need to have an iron clad privacy policy and some sort of no knowledge guarantee between themselves and other sites. Is this possible?

mc32 6y ago
That would be one solution; the one big problem is future revelation. Either someone buys them out, there is a breach, insider information/leak etc. But in principle it sounds like it may work though I’d like to see an enforceable TOS that doesn’t undermine the purpose.
emerged 6y ago
That's what I've been thinking of as well. Anonymous identities which are linked to your real identity in some way. It could prevent the sock puppet issues without exposing you to privacy issues.