new term i expect to start seeing more of on the internet:
KYCwall.
where a site blocks your access without getting a photo of your fucking identity card.
Discussion
I wish there was a way to not interact with bots without giving up privacy like that 🥺
Do you think KYC won't exist in a Bitcoin standard? in a free market?
it's insecure. the end.
the only real security on the internet is a secret key that you physically control and using software that protects it from breach. or even better, a physical key that isolates from your computer and just signs hashes when you tap it after receiving a request.
KYC is about to become ded. when the hackers publish 90% of internet users passwords and passport and ID photos what do you think happens to the public perception of the safety of this system?
mobile networks sim security is already toast some years now. many services have reverted back to using email one time codes.
you'd have to be blind to not notice what's happening. all the old models are dying of their vulnerabilities. conspiracy theories are going mainstream. the scam is on its way to out. the smart guys in the scam are already retired.
I think privacy (and anonymity?) is like a school of fish. It protects the little fishes and not the big fish entrepreneurs. The big fish entrepreneur has the incentive to sell the most things to biggest amount of people, to doxx himself/herself. Big fishes are who produce the most in a free market.
If privacy doesn't work for the people that produce the most, then I could say its success is and will always be limited. The thing we should not ignore is providing physical security to everyone, including big productive entrepreneurs
ID cards and passports now support digital signatures
then i don't need a photo
gonna be inconvenient for the voting fraud if identity is tied to a secret key
you need a photo (specifically the MRZ) to authenticate with the NFC chip
but it doesn’t need to be stored
otherwise anyone could skim it
my passport has an NFC chip in it. i think i either smacked it with a hammer or put it for a second or two in a microwave. i forget when it stopped registering on an NFC scanner.
i probably had a fit of pique about it because nobody even was using scanners. rent hotel? photocopy. get some government shit. photocopy. rent a house? photocopy. never needed the chip in it, and it makes the whole thing awkward.
anyway, i don't want a fucking cattle tag. they had the chance, a whole decade they did nothing with this. instead, photocopy.
because they did nothing with it, people didn't get used to using the digital cryptography features and they won't be on the front foot trying to bring that in. they had at least 10 years to do it, and nothing. instead we have webservers loaded up with photographs that serve in place of the physical item.
they are gonna be fucked.
