[rdrey]

When I first saw this site a few months ago I got quite excited. I was looking for a solution to Sybil Attacks so I liked it on github and read the whitepaper.

The "Human Unique Identifier" is supposed to solve Sybil Attacks. But I don't see how if the enrollment of new users is decentralized bad actors can't simply generate new retinas / HUIDs and enroll them in the system, then use those identities to sway online elections, commit fraud, mine disproportionately more coins, etc.

I'm always looking for fun sci-fi, but the book by Dan Jeffries doesn't contain much of this tech, which was disappointing. It was an OK read otherwise. I think "Infomocracy" was better and contained more novel concepts.

[sebastos]

Agreed, I'm not seeing any protection against simply using fake photoshopped pictures of eyes.

It appears they're envisioning an encrypted microkernel which digests the bio data, generates a public key, and pushes it to a blockchain filled with similar data for the whole world population. So I suppose they could be planning to build some kind of signature into the microkernel itself so that outgoing messages sent from a patched or fraudulent process would be noticed. So I guess that could be used to prevent against the even simpler attack of generating the digests of the biodata, as opposed to the biodata itself.

Still, it all seems pretty hand-wavy.