Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by pessimizer on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:36AM (#36908454)

Why did we believe that we could build an algorithm that provided trust? We can provide "trust", which is when we narrow the definition to verifying whether mathematical objects have been tampered with, or whether they can be observed without secret keys, but we could always make safes.

Trusting a safe isn't like trusting a person.

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by yreg on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:46AM (#36908607)

I don't find this helpful.

Captchas have solved a real problem. They did work.

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by JohnFen on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:17PM (#36914115)

Captchas reduced a real problem, certainly, but didn't solve it. And they come with collateral damage.

I'm not asserting that the compromise they present is a bad one (or a good one). Just that they're a compromise.

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by yreg on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:25PM (#36914769)

You are hair splitting. Okay yes captchas successfully reduced the problem. That doesn't make a difference to the topic.

How can we _reduce_ the problem once captchas are obsolete?

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