Re:How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier)
by derefr on Thursday September 04, 2008 @09:33PM
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Well, we just need to decentralize identity, then. Basically, PGP signing of our more "regular" identification mechanisms using our DNA and a password as the biometric key for the private keyring--other people won't know who you are unless, and until, you want them to.
Because the thing is that modern western society doesn't want a system of identity to be perfect, we just want it to be good enough.
The reason for this is quite simply a history lesson. Every single time the controllers of identity are able to do it really well, the rest of us get royally screwed.