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I would be okay with an identity provider that guaranteed a mapping of online account to real person, and online businesses could choose to use this IdP or not.

• inetknght 5y ago
  > Seems like a can of worms to get the govt involved. Yeah because corporations have been a GREAT steward of mapping online accounts to real persons. There's no way corporations could fudge up identity mapping as badly as governments could. There's definitely no way that people would get a false sense of security from corporations handling that and governments getting their data from corporations instead of directly from the real person. Governments are always bad and will never do anything well ever! /s
• qualudeheart 5y ago
  That sounds like a very bad idea. It only takes a single data breach and all of that information is public. This system imposes an enormous long term responsibility on the organisation(s) storing the data to keep it secure. I don’t trust any organisation to do that when something as large as facebook or the US military can’t even prevent data breaches. I’ll change my mind when we have mathematically proven unhackable databases behind quantum resistant cryptography.
  • somehnacct3757 5y ago
    I agree it's not cryptographically bullet proof, but that didn't stop everyone from handing over their passwords to the private companies running password managers. Some people even hand over 2FA to them. Yet others have a file in their vault with their driver license or passport number. One breach there and they have your bank accounts, utilities, and something approximating your identity.
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