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I want to publicly apologize to Will for temporarily impersonating him to start the conversation. It was not the brightest move. You can tell I’m not well versed in ethical “hacking”. I can understand why that may be upsetting.

Sorry Will. I hope you find it in your heart to forgive.

At the same time I’m concerned with this issue. It’s clear to me that NIP5 is not effective at stopping this type of issues. Anyone can get a NIP5 and nobody will know what your real NIP5 is supposed to be.

While I have some reputational risk, a scammer has zero to lose by paying a little and replying within a hot thread. I could see cases where someone may be able to rip people off fairly easily without much effort.

Right now it’s not much of an issue but down the road it could become one. Hopefully smarter people than myself are already thinking about these things and kicking around viable ideas.

I’ll accept any fallout. I’m not a perfect person.

Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

Any links to what happened or should I piece it together from your timeline?

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HoloKat 2y ago

Someone was impersonating a few people for fun (I think) - it seemed innocent. I could not tell who the real person was easily. It just seemed like a recipe for disaster.

I swapped my name user and image to Will’s and said “what are we going to do about this impersonation issue?” I also commented on a post with an emoji. I’m hindsight I should have not done these things 🤦‍♂️

I think that upset Will, which was not my intention. 😿

pam 2y ago

It’s ok. Blame it on the cat’s owner 💜 But you made a good point. How would you solve this identity scammers problem?

On Iris, those you follow have blue tick. 2nd tier but >10 Ppl common orange tick, and <10 white (or black). Iris web of trust is my quick check if I don’t know who’s who .

But like 🍆 spams, and hell threads it won’t work if people you follow engage with the spams (ie comment) as it becomes your web of trust network. Not perfect but I’ve not had major spam problems and it’s been a go to quick-check.

Another way is to see if this person has mutual follows but may not help if newbie knows no one 🤷‍♀️.