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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by Tenoke on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:01AM (#28999285)
>I think it will fail, because they are solving the problem that does not exist

Admittedly I never bothered to read about it but the problem they are solving is purely the distribution. Currently there's just no way to do a fair distribution where everyone gets equivalent amounts of it except perhaps with KYC but then they have to store way more personal data.

I'm much more comfortable with someone having a hash based on my biometric data than having my passport and other details.

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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by exo762 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:52AM (#28999746)
> I'm much more comfortable with someone having a hash based on my biometric data than having my passport and other details.

Same here. My point is - fair distribution is just a means to achieve a goal of "more equality". As a mean it is an equivalent of giving man a fish instead of teaching him how to fish. At most a PR stunt.

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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by thruway516 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:17AM (#29000703)
Well a passport can always be faked. If the world became a totalitarian dystopia and you were a freedom fighter that had to elude detection, you can always use a fake passport. Faking biometrics is much harder if they already have your data.
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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by Tenoke on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:24AM (#29001528)
I don't think I'd consider "it's harder to fake" a negative for the project if I was involved.
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Re:Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catal... by thruway516 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:25PM (#29003280)
Yes. It’s very good for the project (and the NSA), not so great for users. I’m responding to the comment that prefers to give biometric data to some random private company
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