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by ffssffss 1270 days ago
What stops someone in a wealthy country from just hiring a bunch of destitute people in a developing country for pennies and borrowing their Worldcoin identities to do bot-stuff? That's kind of how influence networks work anyway, individuals are paid to be indistinguishably legitimate users. It's not like some random guy trying to feed his family is going to give a shit about emailing you his private key if you'll send him some cash in exchange. Odds are he'll never use a "dapp" so it doesn't matter if you trash his Worldcoin identity for your own purpose.
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I guess, like any other identity, it could be used for fraud. Either by it’s owner or by someone who gained access to it.
This isn't crazy, people already do this with cell phone numbers for sites that force phone verification.