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A lot of tech folks hate government ID schemes, but I think MDL with some sort of pairwise pseudonyms could help with spam and verification. It would let you i
by Seattle3503 1y ago
A lot of tech folks hate government ID schemes, but I think MDL with some sort of pairwise pseudonyms could help with spam and verification.
It would let you identify users uniquely, but without revealing too much sensitive information. It would let you verify things like "This user has a Michigan driver's license, and they have an ID 1234, which is unique to my system and not linkable to any other place they use that ID."
If you ban that user, they wouldn't be able to use that ID again with you.
The alternative is that we continue to let unelected private operators like Cloudflare "solve" this problem.
- isodev 1y agoThe EU’s eIDAS 2.0 specification for their digital wallet identity explicitly supports the use of pseudonyms for this exact purpose of “Anonymous authentication”.
- Seattle3503 1y agoThat's awesome. Hopefully the US can get something similar.
- DrScientist 1y agoI tend to agree that linking content to real people is a key mechanism that will help fight spam, hidden ads and influencing campaigns. However, if everything is linked to your ID - those that control that will be able to cancel you all at once. A bit like the consequences of being de-banked in an cash-less society. So if you bring in laws that require digital ID"s they have to be implemented with a very robust set of safeguards in my view.
- Gigachad 1y agoTelegram added a feature where if someone cold dms you, it shows their phone number country and account age. When I see a 2 month old account with a Nigeria phone number I know it's a bot and I can ignore it.