Re:Making Sense of Web3
by thinkmassive on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @07:47PM
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DIDs don’t need to be associated with a wallet, or directly linkable to any blockchain for that matter. This is just a stupid decision that a bunch of ethereum projects use because they don’t know any better.
Christopher Allen has been publishing research on the topic for many years before “web3” was used at all, let alone the recent hype cycle. A good thread with links to various articles:
I was thinking similar, the way it was phrased is as if you go into a store and when you go to pay you open your entire wallet and show everybody everything you have in there, rather than just displaying the card which you are using to pay.
At the same time, I think this is a poor wording choice, rather than an actual issue.
It is like a persistent super cookie that exists online and off, that anyone can access, and that can never be deleted.
People think it is bad now with Google and Facebook - web3 is going to be way worse, with every shady operation under the sun doing all sorts of questionable targeting, combining, profiling, mining, and selling of your publicly accessible data openly stored on the block chain (forever) for everyone to see and use for whatever unsavoury things they can conjure up.