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by baby_souffle 952 days ago
> Which means your digital secret will be in all the same online places where your SSN is now, vulnerable to the same kind of hacking. How does this fix anything?

Loads of ways to do digital attestation but they all involve some 3rd party being the trusted source of truth. Typically this would be the DMV or other government branch and at this point a few red flags start to go off: dmv isn't known for it's competence and I'm not really thrilled about them getting hit to confirm my identity for pornhub.

This is a REALLY hard problem to solve unless you take a "privacy must be sacrificed for the greater good" mentality.