cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/18411383
I just got the email from haveibeenpwned. F Trello.
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The current ID system we have - social security numbers - are infinitely worse. Add 1 to it and it's another valid SSN. Most of the numbers can be determined with regional info
@EmperorHenry do... Do you think you're somehow immune to this today? People who piss off the powers that be today are silenced pretty effectively. Nobody needs any digital ID infrastructure to do that.
No one's paying me anything, and I'm well informed of the civil liberty issues surrounding government IDs in general, let alone digital or paper.
What I am referencing is decentralized digital ID. There is no ominous they or third party who could control you with a decentralized digital ID. We already have a pretty shitty ID system, but a better ID system with less centralized control can exist
Everything is hackable, even the current form of id we have which is SSN. Decentralized digital ID is orders of magnitude harder to hack, and has even less government control over the ID process. The expectation value to crack modern encryption is measured on eons even if you're using all the power in the sun and physically perfect efficiency in energy to computation conversion