• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    90s: stay anonymous, be careful with strangers, don’t give up any more info than you have to. The internet can be a dangerous place. Also, supervise your kids and have them ask permission to go online.

    2010s-2020s: livestream your life 24/7, use real names and emails everywhere when signing up for bullshit, hand your kid a phone and let them go buck wild as well.

    How did we stray like this?

    • sab@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I guess it only occasionally makes sense for government web sites and banks. X might have ambitions to become a bank, so in that sense it might make sense.

      So another piece of advice: if twitter ever asks you if you want to start using it for banking, nope the fuck out.

      • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        You Americans should get to this century and start performing digital strong authentications like the rest of us. Sending picture of your ID to anyone is insane :)

        How we do it here in Finland is that there are digital identity providers which use bank/mobile carrier to identify you. They then use MFA when identifying you. Any service can use these services to do strong authentication for you. And they don’t cost anything for the customer, and is really cheap for the company who wants to identify you. It is also build into the law that you must identify people using these, to avoid identity theft.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We’re going to find out in a few years that some congressman’s son or a defense contractor or whatever founded all these “ID verify” systems that are worse than nothing. State IDs will be useless in a few years after the 500th data breach and kids will be j/o to porn their ancestors couldn’t even imagine.

  • Merulox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    it won’t be mandatory, unfortunately. Would’ve loved to see another fediverse mass migration