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> Multiple identities are trivial. ... linked to an entirely non-overlapping set of social accounts, with different friends etc. That's not trivial, and it's c
by irq-1 11y ago
> Multiple identities are trivial. ... linked to an entirely non-overlapping set of social accounts, with different friends etc.
That's not trivial, and it's certainly won't be the default, normal thing everyone does. Instead Keybase will encourage a single identity linking multiple accounts. This is fundamentally bad.
- mirimir 11y agoHaving an identity and associated public keys that are fully validated is essential in many contexts. Let's say that I'm using a GitHub project, supposedly from a well-known Debian developer. Or let's say that I'm adding the Tor Project repository to Debian, in order to build the latest alpha release. Without well-known and readily validated public keys, how would I know what I was actually getting? I agree that it's unusual to have multiple independent personas. It's quite common among my cohort, in order to provide deniability. Given the surveillance clusterfuck that's developing, deniability is becoming essential for everyone, even if they don't yet realize it. That will be especially important for young people, who are being profiled virtually from conception. It does take some technical skill to establish multiple independent personas. One typically uses Linux and/or *BSD, virtualization, VPN services, Tor, Bitcoin, and so on. But getting up to speed only takes a few weeks.