Interesting idea RE PGP key as middle name... just it would suck to then later on lose access to your private key!
Re:Facebook Announces Meta Verified
by hn_go_brrrrr on Monday February 20, 2023 @09:44PM
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He can change his middle name again. It's not like the government will require him to produce the private key to do so
Re:Facebook Announces Meta Verified
by WirelessGigabit on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:57AM
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Or generate a vanity key id?
Re:Facebook Announces Meta Verified
by NineStarPoint on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:58AM
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Those are all interesting things you could do, but in what way would they help when we’re talking about the Meta platform? We’re considering the case where someone is actively choosing to use a name that’s not their own for some reason, and if that reason required impersonation they’d just make an account using your publicly available PGP middle name as well.
I briefly looked into trademarking my personal name (legal to do in Australia) but its cost prohibitive (vs verifying for multiple online platforms).
I even thought briefly about legally changing my name to include a new middle-name that was my PGP short key id. But Australia does not permit the use of numeric symbols in names. (Though I guess you could shift the hex string by 10 so 0-F maps to A-P. That wouldn't break the rules.)