[creer]

> You can believe that a standard committee of very smart people (technical and regulatory) was thinking about all these problems so saying “what about X” isn’t helpful when X is an obvious concern.

Really? Doesn't HN show on a monthly basis that no, exactly nothing directly follows from that premise? Typically the committee has completely different incentives and directions from, well, half the planet's wants?

At that stage though, mine was just a question. I was curious.

> they will be stopped once they become a known vector of identity theft

Okay. I'll agree to disagree. See US Social Security Numbers, cell phone numbers, credit card system...