• @EmperorHenry@infosec.pub
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    710 months ago

    remind me again how digital IDs are going to make us safer when every company with people’s personal details is constantly getting hacked?

            • @ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub
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              210 months ago

              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@infosec.pub
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                -210 months ago

                I don’t know who’s paying you and all the others to say that shit, but digital IDs aren’t about keeping anything safe, it’s about controlling the population and locking them out of society when they misbehave. If you make any political statement that rocks the boat you don’t exist anymore. If you become a whistleblower, you don’t have any freedom anymore. If you do anything at all that the oligarchs don’t want you to do, you’re not a person anymore.

                • furysama
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                  110 months ago

                  @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.

                • @ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub
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                  010 months ago

                  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

                  • @EmperorHenry@infosec.pub
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                    010 months ago

                    digital IDs are still hackable, even if you have total control over your own, it’s still hackable and it gets tracked everywhere you have to show it.