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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago
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From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we̵…
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    Fuck off.with that. These systems are evil

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      If the alternative is everyone gets identity theft, I prefer the cryptography solution

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        That smells like a false dichotomy… but, I’m heading on to other things better to do with my time than to think up examples outside those two possibilities.

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        The problem is that it’s Evil even if it works “right”

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          It’s not evil for me to use State-issued crypto ID for auth when opening a bank account or paying taxes or voting.

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            That’s debatable.

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