Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by ipaddr on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:06AM (#35208779)

If spam was your only problem now we have two spam and identity theft. Selling/obtaining identity information becomes very profitable and those working in the postal office must guard access like a bank vault.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by lifeisstillgood on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:21AM (#35209353)

Then make it a banks job to guard the bank vaults - they need to earn that FDIC bailout money :-)

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by wpietri on Saturday March 18, 2023 @12:29PM (#35210431)

The paradigm of fixed identity information as proof is pretty obviously doomed. Just like how the 1970s concept of username/password as proof of identity is on its way out. Or credit card numbers alone being used to validate transactions.

All of those notions are pre-internet ways of proving identity. In a world where we're all rarely more than an arm's length from a globally connected computer, they're on the way out.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by lifeisstillgood on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:02AM (#35218147)

I am guessing that "fixed identity information" is not a key pair ?

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