Re:The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed
by pavel_lishin on Sunday February 06, 2011 @08:05PM
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Public/private keypairs could help here, actually. A space in the profile to post your public key, as well as a short line of text, and then the same line encrypted with your private key.
Of course, I guess a fake account could generate their own keypair, and it would be hard to prove to the internet at large whose keypair truly belongs to you.
Re:The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed
by jackolas on Sunday February 06, 2011 @09:14PM
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Just get it signed, twitter's verified accounts are kind of like this but without any key exchanging involved. Verification is easy compared to getting people to use PKI stuff.
Re:The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed
by thwarted on Sunday February 06, 2011 @10:05PM
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Verification is easy compared to getting people to use PKI stuff.
I wonder what kind of inroads Facebook could make concerning public knowledge of crypto by allowing people to post cryptographically verified entries using an SSL client cert.
Re:The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed
by biot on Sunday February 06, 2011 @10:34PM
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If you only need to prove to people who recognize you which account is real, post a video of yourself explaining how to tell the difference.
Re:The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed
by revdinosaur on Monday February 07, 2011 @01:45PM
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Deduction leads me to believe that she's talking about the UK. It's another English speaking country which likely has been exposed to her and her work in some form. Secondly, it has notoriously harsh libel and slander laws. I think that pining for laws like that, as a writer, is horrendously self-sabotaging as it is akin to call for truncations in the First Amendment.
Why not tell us the country and what laws there are?
The reality is that anyone can create any web page they want, and you'll never be able to find them. You need to figure out some other strategy to manage your identity, like advertising to your fanbase what your real Facebook profile is.
Personally, when I see something on the Internet (social profile or otherwise), I usually assume it's fake. It boggles my mind that other people don't do this. And that's the real problem.