[nsl73]

Why would I ever trust a notary?

As a person being notarized it sounds like I have to give that business more personal information about myself than I usually have to do to get an online identity, as suggested by your subpoena statement.

As a service trying to verify accounts I now have to trust a third party. Maybe the notary has a business that sells fake IDs in the back that are then used in the notarizing process. Maybe my competition set up a burner notary node in order to flood my service with malicious accounts. It sounds like an attack vector.

[uniqueid]

You've never provided any business with ID? How do you get into nightclubs?

The internet is important. When something is important enough, it is worth the risk. That's why people share secrets with their bank, lawyer, doctor, psychologist, etc.

We are squandering most of the potential of social media, because its design limits worthwhile conversation to hypotheticals. Since there's no reason to trust the honesty or motivations of anyone online, discussing actual data or life-experience is pointless.

[elric]

> How do you get into nightclubs?

Clubs don't care about identity. In some parts of the world they care about age and outward signs of affluence and/or attractiveness.

[uniqueid]

I was thinking of North America, where "carding" is still standard practice.

[supertrope]

>Age