Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden @Snowden

The privacy techniques come into play in Phase 2. While they're clever and appreciated (ZKPs!), they can't address the trust problem of somebody snarfing biometrics. Maybe you don't save timestamps. Maybe you don't correlate bluetooth/wifi/whatever w enrollment. But you could. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 23, 2021

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With respect, the docs say the "sequencer nodes" save the hashes (identifiers) produced by scanning people's eyes to your database. Apple does not, IIRC, catalog raw bio hashes—they're encrypted on-device (via enclave). The result of Worldcoin's "Phase 1" is an eyeball catalog. https://t.co/0sRhcXhEJs — PolitiTweet.org

All that said, I definitely underestimated the visceral reaction to using biometrics for identity verification (e.g… https://t.co/FOtZ4VNxJq

Posted Oct. 23, 2021

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You are absolutely right to focus on the fact that the current crop of payment processors are an absolute privacy disaster: that's a meaningful part of why crypto is important—and attractive—to many. But the way to fix that is not another boring bitcoin clone (plus orb worship). — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 23, 2021