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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID (notthesolution.substack.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 4 days ago (31 children)

This should be what digital ID looks like:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

mDMEZ26+ARYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAsUGMjbGNUyyz9PHsHKP4xj/tIfYIuHb4miPH 0iCPpu60K0VSUk9SOiBFYXJ0aC5leGUgaGFzIGNyYXNoZWQgPG5vQGVtYWlsLmV4 ZT6IcgQTFggAGgQLCQgHAhUIAhYBAhkBBYJnbr4BAp4BApsDAAoJEI6E3uMn31Z3 028BAM5o8ER0dqTsxFlZSgZOvvgFHGuy2eFgF3rULkGKl1KrAP9fdE7WwnYbBer/ AVmw5jr0P5m/XsEQQrSueuk/FLYBBbg4BGduvgESCisGAQQBl1UBBQEBB0BDR0Bv pf4jxbwp9rVowFTnL59NGqnnh6XyF/LjAoYDGgMBCAeIYQQYFggACQWCZ26+AQKb DAAKCRCOhN7jJ99Wd1dMAP45xmN03SodkWHi7PYOORqNXJUBdMzzfsRXdqE8ZXaW vAD+PqNqPcbwJYCOEAXkg7DlZ0SX3o9MViZLdzHFQ3TpUA8= =krDh -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

PGP Key Fingerprint: 857957d40f06cc816fd3d29a8e84dee327df5677

Should be good until quantum computers come around

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, gonna need your phone number to verify that though.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 6 points 4 days ago

No you don't! That's why we have key-signing parties!

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