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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by piva00 on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:50PM (#36910576)
> Also, the registration is basically fully anonymous.

You are uploading your iris scan into a black box, how can that be considered anonymous?

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by px43 on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:45PM (#36950920)
Designs are mostly open, and plans are for the orbs to be fully open hardware. The iris is hashed into an "iriscode" and the detailed scans are deleted, and never leave the device. Iriscode is then linked via some zero knowledge proof witchcraft to activate a World ID on a new keypair, which is completely dissociated with the iriscode.
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