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My guess is by using ID verification similar to how I do it on https://onlyhumanhub.com/ https://onlyhumanhub.com/

by dom96 3mo ago

kokanee 3mo ago
I'm curious about how this works, but it doesn't look like I can find out without creating an account. I see that it says "Link your existing social accounts to prove you're not a bot." How does having social media accounts prove I'm not a bot?
- dom96 3mo ago
  If you're interested in detail of how it works, I wrote about it here: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-human/ https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...
  - kokanee 3mo ago
    I see -- the statement "Link your existing social accounts to prove you're not a bot" is intended to mean that after you have verified your identity by scanning your passport, you can prove you're not a bot on your BlueSky account. The phrasing is misleading, and the home page seems to omit the most important part: you have to scan your passport.
SahAssar 3mo ago
So you have just built a wrapper around https://passportreader.app/ https://passportreader.app/, which itself is reading NFC enabled ID/passports from specific countries. The coverage map is here: https://passportreader.app/coverage https://passportreader.app/coverage. Might be good to know that even in the US this approach would only work for ~50% of people, since a lot of people don't have passports. In most countries this does not work at all, since they don't issue NFC enabled ID/passports.
- teraflop 3mo ago
  The "how it works" page for that website says that the ID data is "digitally signed by the issuing government". But there doesn't seem to be anything in the docs about how to get or verify that signature. So it seems like they are just asking users to trust them to do the verification.
- notpushkin 3mo ago
  > The coverage map is here: https://passportreader.app/coverage https://passportreader.app/coverage Oh, cool! Russia is not on the list. Another service that excludes me just becasue I got lucky with the colour of my (NFC-enabled, biometric) passport. On a less bitter note, I don’t think it’s that hard to build biometric passport validation. Face matching would be another thing, but for unregulated industries I don’t think you’ll need that, so why not grab some library from GitHub and be in control of the whole process? (You would still need to handle people without biometric passports somehow, of course.)
- dom96 3mo ago
  No humanity verification is perfect. 50% of people is already pretty good. Really governments need to do better here, and make it possible to do this type of verification using zero knowledge proofs.
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My guess is by using ID verification similar to how I do it on https://onlyhumanhub.com/ https://onlyhumanhub.com/

by dom96 3mo ago

My guess is by using ID verification similar to how I do it on https://onlyhumanhub.com/ https://onlyhumanhub.com/

I'm curious about how this works, but it doesn't look like I can find out without creating an account. I see that it says "Link your existing social accounts to prove you're not a bot." How does having social media accounts prove I'm not a bot?

dom96 3mo ago
If you're interested in detail of how it works, I wrote about it here: https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-human/ https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-h...
- kokanee 3mo ago
  I see -- the statement "Link your existing social accounts to prove you're not a bot" is intended to mean that after you have verified your identity by scanning your passport, you can prove you're not a bot on your BlueSky account. The phrasing is misleading, and the home page seems to omit the most important part: you have to scan your passport.

SahAssar 3mo ago

So you have just built a wrapper around https://passportreader.app/ https://passportreader.app/, which itself is reading NFC enabled ID/passports from specific countries. The coverage map is here: https://passportreader.app/coverage https://passportreader.app/coverage. Might be good to know that even in the US this approach would only work for ~50% of people, since a lot of people don't have passports. In most countries this does not work at all, since they don't issue NFC enabled ID/passports.

teraflop 3mo ago
The "how it works" page for that website says that the ID data is "digitally signed by the issuing government". But there doesn't seem to be anything in the docs about how to get or verify that signature. So it seems like they are just asking users to trust them to do the verification.
notpushkin 3mo ago
> The coverage map is here: https://passportreader.app/coverage https://passportreader.app/coverage Oh, cool! Russia is not on the list. Another service that excludes me just becasue I got lucky with the colour of my (NFC-enabled, biometric) passport. On a less bitter note, I don’t think it’s that hard to build biometric passport validation. Face matching would be another thing, but for unregulated industries I don’t think you’ll need that, so why not grab some library from GitHub and be in control of the whole process? (You would still need to handle people without biometric passports somehow, of course.)
dom96 3mo ago
No humanity verification is perfect. 50% of people is already pretty good. Really governments need to do better here, and make it possible to do this type of verification using zero knowledge proofs.

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