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by systemvoltage 1047 days ago
This would be great if it didn’t have any downsides. China has a system like that: QR code to login everywhere. Everything is linked to your phone number which is given after taking a picture of you and official ID.

We are gonna have to live in a slightly bot-rich society to keep this at bay.

It starts with browser control. And then, ends with needing human verification to ssh into a server that you own. Let’s just build better security.