Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Reading through the new Lummis/Gillibrand Bill, and I find it fascinating how there is so structured a format for restructuring format, IE a manner in which some new bit of U.S. Code amends prior bits of U.S. Code.

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version

Well-known member
My computer broke so my brother lent me an old, SIMless smartphone.

I can see how people end up pissing about on them all day, but they aren't comfortable to use. It's so clunky using touchscreen in comparison to a keyboard, the thumb is too indelicate.
 
My computer broke so my brother lent me an old, SIMless smartphone.

I can see how people end up pissing about on them all day, but they aren't comfortable to use. It's so clunky using touchscreen in comparison to a keyboard, the thumb is too indelicate.
This is the start of it! Your thumb will strengthen and adapt, and a year down the line you'll realise the sleek black rectangle has become your true home
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I'll actually be on a couple conference panels over the next couple weeks, discussing the zero-knowledge ID being developed by a partner organization of ours. It actually stands to be a big step forward in terms of user privacy and data sovereignty, compared to the established KYC processes I'm familiar with.

Here is an illustrative example. When you get carded at a bar or at a liquor store, imagine just being able to prove your age and not anything else about you, rather than having to show them your ID and all the other information that contains about you - information which is superfluous in situations which only regard age.

We'll be using this solution to build fancy civic/advocacy tools, to facilitate grassroots movements which require verification of certain identity information - but now we don't need to actually publish/convey that information itself, just verify that it is valid.

Here is a short explainer on zero-knowledge cryptography. Could be really ground-breaking, especially if we're being proactive vis-a-vis compliance and regulation (which we are being).

https://www.forkinwisdom.com/zk-tech-copy
 

Leo

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Here is an illustrative example. When you get carded at a bar or at a liquor store, imagine just being able to prove your age and not anything else about you, rather than having to show them your ID and all the other information that contains about you - information which is superfluous in situations which only regard age.

is that an actual issue, or just a theoretical one? does a bouncer at a bar ever care about, or even look at, information other than date of birth?
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
is that an actual issue, or just a theoretical one? does a bouncer at a bar ever care about, or even look at, information other than date of birth?
Thats a trivial issue, but a good example of how our current means of verifying aspects of identity involves, by incidental necessity, conveying a bunch of additional information which isn't needed in that particular situation.

More important examples would have to do with petitioning, civic engagement, lobbying, etc, where you can verify on a need-to-know, a la carte basis, rather than having to upload your ID. EG in some situations in these areas, it could be sufficient to verify only ZIP code of residence, and age, while other stuff like name, gender, etc, wouldn't need to be conveyed.

Its parsimonious, and its also safer in terms of how much of your personal data really needs to be floating around out there. Although in ths case, because of the cryptography, the raw data wouldn't be floating around out there, just cryptographic hashes of it (which can still enable hackers and sleuths to deduce information about you, but its just much more secure than keeping that identity info on private servers, where it can be leaked or hacked.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
The bouncer example is more to illustrate how having all your info on displayed one card, and the means of verification being that you either show that full card or don't show it, in order to prove any one of the bit of info it contains, is just a less efficient and privacy-respecting means of identity verification than what can be (and is being) built.

The bartender may only care about your age, and if they happen to see your name and your address it probably won't be a security concern for you, but in other situations it may be safer just to convey certain mission-critical parameters of your identity, rather than your whole profile like that.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
And in certain situations, all that needs to be verified is that a user is a real and unique person, in which case requiring the user to upload an ID is overkill. Instead, there can be an encrypted attestation that the user is in fact a real person, or at least that they've scanned a unique ID, and this attestation can be cryptographically confirmed by the user, who has a particular decryption key which they control via permissions in a web browser.
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
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