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How would this even work? Normally for such signatures there is either a hierchy of trust (ssl) or you know them personally (PGP). Even if there was a working m
by rootshelled 6y ago
How would this even work? Normally for such signatures there is either a hierchy of trust (ssl) or you know them personally (PGP). Even if there was a working model, if Twitter itself got hacked, an account could just claim they lost their key and made a new one.
- enchiridion 6y agoCould it tie all the way back to hardware?
- shuntress 6y agoFor most people that's true but for extremely high profile like Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, they will have other channels to confirm their identity (and their current public key). If you want to stretch to the logical extreme full-dystopian deepfake future where any message could be fake then the only real solution is the free press. A distributed network of groups and individuals that will each independently validate the things that people do and say then make those validations available for the general public to review.