Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts

Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by vlovich123 on Sunday December 31, 2023 @09:47AM (#38824384)

I don’t know. I wouldn’t say that governments do identity better than anyone else and adding more dependency on it just increases the value of the government ID making it an even more lucrative target to steal/forge.

Fake ids are a thing and the quality depends on how much you spend. Governments also have reasons to lie about identity themselves (think spies).

A true identity solution means being able to cross reference your identity across multiple entities (federal government, state and municipal, employers you’ve worked for, businesses you’ve interacted with, etc etc).

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by fragmede on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:31AM (#38824692)

I'm sure there's a criminal underworld where you can just buy a passport to get you into a country, but for the average person, passports are really hard to fake, which makes them good enough as identity for logging into your average dog photo sharing site.

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by maxcoder4 on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:47AM (#38824813)

Why would I want to log in to a dog sharing website using my real identity? Maybe I'm an outlier but I really value the pseudonymity possible thanks to the internet. I can share as much or as little about me as I want, and the dumb things I probably wrote when I was 14 are not immortalized with my name next to them.

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by Cyberdog on Sunday December 31, 2023 @03:16PM (#38827149)

A dog what web site?

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by CatWChainsaw on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:28PM (#38827670)

They said dogs, not cyberdogs, so you might be safe?

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