Conversation about Identiy-proof problem regarding the server to server social network platform
• 12:00 AMI've been focusing on one specific aspect that you need for that. The identity-proof problem. It's easy if you know the person and especially if you can meet in real life. But if they're digital, it's a far more difficult problem. You can't _know_ that someone you know hasn't been hacked or that someone isn't just impersonating them. Or, darker, someone isn't coercing a friend to give you a malicious identity. Nothing about our digital future is safe without a way to solve that. Until then, the best we have is the shitty, centralized, proprietary trash we currently have.
Bob Lash jr.
Here, Here. I saw your tweet about identity, you are so right about it being paramount to getting to this system. It's cool you're working on it. How do I know I'm talking to you right now, because google says so. The new identity paradigm has to be a trusted identity system, and no central authority can do that either, for they are subject to the same problem as your friend being coerced example. Math can solve this. The answer is not the current (1 - 1 - Authority) Identity Design Pattern, it's a (many to many) Identity Design Pattern.The answer is a Trusted Service, Distributed Peer Based Identity