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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by danuker on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:58AM (#28999264)
> You need a unique identifier / derivative of it

What prevents anyone from mass-generating unique identifiers?

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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by Zecc on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:32AM (#28999578)
Presumably the fact it needs be done via The Orb which is (pinky promise) tamper-proof.
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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by meragrin_ on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:13AM (#28999403)
How would you mass-generate unique identifiers?
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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by dmitriid on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:20AM (#28999474) 

    for(;;) new GUID();
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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by meragrin_ on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:36AM (#28999611)
How does that introduce them into the network? Is that even the format of the identifiers they use?
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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by dmitriid on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:26AM (#29000106)
As for the network, it's as easy. It creates a hash of a retina on a single device with no further confirmation or verification.

So al this comes down to several rather simple steps:

- if the algorithm for the hash is known, generate new hashes programmatically

- if not, but the hash is simple, reverse engineer/brute force the hash, generate new hashes programmatically

- if not, generate synthetic retina images and feed them to the algorithm

--- cut off point, and a really don't think you would need anything beyond this point for a shitty cryptocoin like worldcoin ---

- if the algorithm can differentiate between flat images and "actual" retinas, for some definition of "actual", iterate through artificial eyes until they trigger the required response

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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by jbverschoor on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:03AM (#28999314)
Same is true for all private keys
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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by vntok on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:27AM (#28999533)
Scanning one's eye.
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