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These days people tend to have multiple aspects to their identity that they keep separate. You probably want to have a Github identity separate from, say, a soc
by upofadown 4y ago
These days people tend to have multiple aspects to their identity that they keep separate. You probably want to have a Github identity separate from, say, a social media identity or, say, your legal identity. Verifying such identities is heavily contextual. So a system that lets you generate your own identities in a well standardized way is useful.
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- gabereiser 4y agoThis. Because people have their personal identity, their work identity, maybe a corporate identity if they run a company. It's too complex a concept to codify into an Uber-identity.
- wkat4242 4y agoThis is the problem though, social media and advertising companies try to break this barrier so they can data mine you better. This is why Facebook has a real name policy for example. With the move to federated systems in commercial hands (log in with Facebook, Google etc) this only becomes harder to escape.
- woodruffw 4y agoSure. But none of that requires or even particularly recommends PGP. In one sense it even discourages PGP, since PGP's "normal" identity devolution pattern is subkeys bound back to the top-level user key.
- upofadown 4y ago>...PGP's "normal" identity devolution pattern is subkeys bound back to the top-level user key. I am quite knowledgeable about PGP but I have no idea what this means.