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uranium235
7y ago
It's be nice if people didn't have to trust the government, since that always ends in failure. Like America for example, but admittedly it's a damn shame that people are not smarter than this.
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uranium235
7y ago
I really would like to recommend go-any-proxy as well: https://github.com/ryanchapman/go-any-proxy It is pretty good you can masquerade it (configure it as a transparent proxy for any outbound TCP traffic and it uses H
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uranium235
7y ago
I can only speculate but I've given a lot of thought to this problem and: 1. nobody has suggested it as an alternative; nobody wants to completely get rid of the system we have now. PKI requires electronics to create and verify signa
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uranium235
7y ago
well not using PGP specifically, but imagine having a social security card with two QR codes on it in addition to your social security number. one of the QR codes contains a private key and the other a public key. The financial institutions
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uranium235
7y ago
no for sure, stealing is a dick thing to do. But I like to keep my expectations reasonable. Can I reasonably expect to carelessly leave my phone at a table in a place where crime is known to happen when I know better?
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uranium235
7y ago
I would really like to see a more modern version of the nextstep style In the same way I'm using fluxbox with my own style that reflects something a little more modern. Just need to figure out how to get proper alpha compositing for a
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uranium235
7y ago
If I didn't know any better I'd say you were trying to sell me wooden nickels. This looks exactly like Windowmaker :D I like to say that about people's next stations whenever I have the chance
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uranium235
7y ago
Just to be practical: the internet is not a magical place just one where anonymity is so practical that one can not justify a figurative brink truck failing. Moreover, it's absolutely unacceptable for institutions like Equifax to fail
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uranium235
7y ago
He probably thinks wow why is it that nobody ever considers that this problem would go away if we just came up with a better system for identity, such as how PGP works.
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uranium235
7y ago
yes people are unreliable that's why we need a more resilient means to establish identity like PKI. Consider PGP for example, they could put QR codes on social security cards for all I care just fix the real problem for once.
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uranium235
7y ago
would just like to merely point out that we could use public key cryptography to solve the problem of identity theft.