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All of these advances in technology have made the internet much less trustworthy. I wonder if we'll eventually hit a threshold where nothing is done virtually a
by pictureofabear 4y ago
All of these advances in technology have made the internet much less trustworthy. I wonder if we'll eventually hit a threshold where nothing is done virtually anymore because you can't trust it.
- jvm___ 4y agoThe open internet will be a dark forest, beautiful, but populated by metal-brains. Meat-brains will retreat inside trusted spaces below or above the empty forest. https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
- sofixa 4y agoI think the work being done in the opposite direction is going to make it so the Internet can be used for high trust actions too. E.g. in the EU we have ID cards and passports with biometric information and NFC, and there was a beta of a phone app by the French government where it would read your photo from the ID card/passport, and compare with a video selfie. That way you get fully local and secure identification allowing you to do stuff online that would otherwise require you to show up in person to a government office.
- jacquesm 4y agoThat 'video selfie' is untrustworthy, which was sort of the point.
- sofixa 4y agoIt's taken by the app directly, so it's somewhat hard to pass fake 3D video input to it.
- int_19h 4y agoOnly if hardware is completely locked down.
- jacquesm 4y agoScammers are well incentivized to find bypasses and feeding an alternative video stream into an app on a device that you control physically isn't all that hard for a determined person. I can think of three ways to do this right off the bat and if I think about it a little longer I'll probably find some more. I sincerely hope that that is not the last line of defense.