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The lookup of whitehouse.gov (is that the same was house gov, where dotcom was a porn site?) should hopefully be a company name. So perhaps we could use organis
by a3w 4y ago
The lookup of whitehouse.gov (is that the same was house gov, where dotcom was a porn site?) should hopefully be a company name.
So perhaps we could use organisations from the DNS system?
Or flip the DNS name, write out which geographical or organizational topology applies to every aspect of it on mouseover/touch, to make it readable left-to-right in the case of english etc.
And we could combine this, as proposed before, adding the information looked up from DNS for non-private accounts to every domain that is used in browsers or social media.
The again, people bought a probably mafia owned companies stock because it looked like the software Zoom was the same as the name of that stock, which was an error.
So there is no alternative except for trusting in the word of someone, that identity is what you think it is.
But no, i do not think that GNUnet or how ever the HTTPS alternative for trust is called would be a better alternative to prevent fraudulent accounts.
Another random idea:
Social media could be kind of a reversed "obligatory imprint", i.e, having a natural person's or company's name as your acccount should mean that they should have a postbox for inquiries. Normally, pseudonymous content is required in germany to have an imprint refering to a legal entity. Reverse, because you claimed to be a legal entity, so be liable for that here. Enforcement could be done via ".well-known" addresses on hosts that serve the actual imprint sites? Or with more effort, by sending codes to physical postboxes, that need to be matched for every company or organisation.
Tl;DR:
Further research into UX and thread models is in order, IMHO.