Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
by jxf on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:18AM
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Blockchain contracts definitely do not somehow preclude "evil", for almost any reasonable definition of evil. They preclude forgery and very specific categories of fraud — but beyond that the sky is the limit.
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Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
by dteiml on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:07AM
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The problem with block chain is it requires the whole stack be on chain (at least if it is to be referenced in a contract). If that's the case, then you can definitely do this. E.g. a smart contract that represents the login functionality and you can hard-code it has to be some other immutable contract, and can't be changed to FB login.
On second thought, the whole issue is weird because blockchain doesn't have a login concept.
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
by chrisco255 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:28AM
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It's auditable, open source, and immutable. It's neutral. Neither good nor evil. It's your responsibility or the community's responsibility to audit the code and assess the risks.
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
by obmelvin on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:16AM
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That's great at and all, but I honestly don't understand how that would help in this situation. Unless you write something absurd like "Mark Zuckerberg's stock will be transferred to Palmer Luckey if this promise is broken", which just about no one in Mark's position would agree to, how are you going to actually prevent something like this from happening?
edit: and as ComputerGuru stated - such a clause can just as easily be put into a traditional contract
Re:Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
by ComputerGuru on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:12AM
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So is a contract written in legalese English.