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.
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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!