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Maybe in the future/present one could provide a service of just being a 100% verifiable real person.

• msla 4y ago
  Any verification you can get over the mail or over the Internet or over any other distant communication can be faked. Cryptography doesn't help, genetic material doesn't help, fingerprints don't help: They only prove that the entity you're communicating with has access to private keys and at least one person, assuming genetic material can't be faked at this point, not that you're always communicating with the same person. It's why the old cypherpunks insisted on exchanging public keys in person.
  • trompetenaccoun 4y ago
    It's a very difficult problem to solve in a way that works for most people, i.e. secure, privacy preserving, easy to use, etc. It's easy to have one and not the other. It's not true that it can not be solved at all though. The guys from idena.io have a solution that definitely works, problem is it's not convenient and I highly doubt that it'll ever be adopted by the masses. But it is a sybil attack solution and it does work over the internet. Edit: Just noticed you said prove that it's always the same person. They can not do that. But they can prove that it's a unique human. Which seems good enough for online reviews imo, where it doesn't exactly matter who the person is.