Re:Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says UK secu...
by furi on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:53AM
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That would make the (largely hypothetical) problem of deepfaked news far far worse. It's the same problem we see with TLS where a green lock just means people's brains turn off. "It must be tied to a real person's ID" is trivial for anybody determined to bypass (they can just steal, forge or make an ID) but when people view it they will see that it's been verified by the government's big brother identity system, so it must be legitimate. It's literally arming the bad guys with the tools to make their fakes look government endorsed.
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Re:Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says UK secu...
by paul7986 on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:58AM
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Yes I understand security concerns thus you are forced to verify yourself via your retina and thumbprints.
Re:Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says UK secu...
by furi on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:00AM
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Still absolutely trivial for a state level actor to bypass, aka: the exact people you really don't want creating fake news that looks government endorsed.
Re:Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says UK secu...
by UncleEntity on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:23AM
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Yep, we'll have to make sure that the only place internets posting can take place is in person at the Department of Right Thinking until you have a high enough social score to be trusted.
Because that's what all this is really about.
Re:Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says UK secu...
by GekkePrutser on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:40PM
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Exactly. Look for China as an example where this is already happening today.
Re:Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says UK secu...
by kazinator on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:01AM
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Actual government-endorsed would never be fake, of course.
Re:Digital IDs needed to end 'mob rule' online, says UK secu...
by pavel_lishin on Sunday June 10, 2018 @04:37PM
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Via what device? A government-produced one? Or will it be a free-for-all, with Google, Alexa, and countless off-the-books Chinese factories producing competing products that you'll be buying on Alexa - that will surely be unhackable, no sir!