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> services to get dox-able to your real identity? Hell no! [0] […] Would you use the same password everywhere on the internet too? Similar risk-management issue
by the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
> services to get dox-able to your real identity? Hell no! [0] […] Would you use the same password everywhere on the internet too? Similar risk-management issues arise here.
I'm not sure this follows. It's clear that reusing a password is a bad idea, and more importantly a password is supposed to be secret. Identities _usually_ are not. It's clearly different in the context of Open Source but you would not go into many commercial transactions without verifying the person on the other side.
In quite a few countries (eg: Germany) cannot even voluntarily change your name and your personal information in many ways is required to be public (Impressumspflicht). Sweden maybe goes even further by making tax records public. If that was the same situation as with passwords then life in those countries would not work.