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They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens (www.techspot.com)

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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (41 children)

I keep saying: none of this will end until we get a clean, cryptographically secure, government-backed way to ID who is sending us something, and it becomes an expectation to use it all the time for anything important. Which is why I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about government ID.

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

PGP already exists 🤷‍♂️

[–] doylio@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

PGP isn't tied to a specific person though.

I'm starting to come around to the idea of gov't backed crypto ID, but I am very worried about the potential abuse of that system

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I am fine thanks.

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s tied to an identity. You can sign your message with your PGP key.

[–] doylio@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, but it's not Sybil resistant. Anyone can make as many PGP Keys as they want.

What is really needed is the ability to sign messages proving:

that I am a specific person ("I am John Smith")
that I am a unique person without revealing my ID ("I only have one account here")
attributes about me without revealing my ID ("I am 18+", "I am a French Citizen", etc)

This is all possible with ZK cryptography today if you have a trusted data source for the key storage. Governments might be able to set something like this up, but that comes with a lot of privacy concerns. There are other projects like WorldCoin, Idena, and Proof of Humanity that attempt to do this in a decentralized way, but they've all had issues with adoption

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