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From the website: > With IRMA it is easy to log in and make yourself known, by disclosing only relevant attributes of yourself. For instance, in order to watch
by catiopatio 4y ago
From the website:
> With IRMA it is easy to log in and make yourself known, by disclosing only relevant attributes of yourself. For instance, in order to watch a certain movie online, you prove that you are older than 16, and nothing else.
That’s not “cool stuff”.
- bmn__ 4y agoYou present the conclusion only. Please share the train of thoughts that made you arrive at it, because it is not obvious.
- Aeolun 4y agoIt’s not cool that content would be restricted to people that can prove they are older than 16. It requires very little imagination to see how this could be extended to restrict content to people that have a yellow star on their clothes.
- kergonath 4y agoThis does not follow, in the same way that the existence of the police does not imply a slide towards a police state. The slippery slope fallacy is a fallacy. Besides, at least around here they already ask for an ID if you look young enough, for some movies. This is not enabled by new technologies.
- GTP 4y agoPostGuard is, as for many users it's way easier than PGP (no key management issues, plus some special case handled better). As I mentioned, the drawback is trust in a central server and an identity provider.