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Re:Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project by LispSporks22 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:08PM (#36974606)
I'm kinda morbidly curious about things in general, so here's my question: Can I cut someone's eye ball out and use it to collect their money, or does Worldcoin use some kind of 2FA like my phone?
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Re:Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project by walrus01 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:13PM (#36974667)
I see someone else remembers the eyeball authentication scene in this well known movie:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/

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Re:Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project by fnoof on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:29PM (#36979330)
The orb does a round of “liveness” checks before the retina imaging to ensure someone’s not trying to scan their dog / detached eyeball.
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