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Re:Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when yo... by wyager on Saturday September 09, 2017 @03:39PM (#15208818)
> I am hoping for the day something and more appropriate for this age will make them irrelevant.

We have the technology to build vastly superior replacements right now. It's mostly network effect requirements that make this extremely challenging/slow to implement.

An example of something we could do is cryptographically authenticated web-of-trust creditworthiness estimation, with techniques like proof of burn and selective trust anchoring used to establish terminal nodes in the unrolled trust DAG. This sort of thing would allow for pseudonymous, automated determination of trust without the extreme security and privacy risks posed by centralized identity stores like the credit bureaus.

Re:Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when yo... by antimatter on Saturday September 09, 2017 @06:47PM (#15209542)
I find technical discussions around this subject extremely fascinating but I'm a total noob in this space. Would you mind sharing any relevant links on the topics you mentioned?