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by MattPalmer1086 1055 days ago
Yes, exactly. People keep trying to use them for authentication for some inexplicable reason. They should only be used for identification, if at all.
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It should be used as authentication-of-personhood, but not exactly as a username or password.
Authentication of personhood does not require individual identification.

I guess "authentication of unique personhood" would though.