Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
What do you think about Worldcoin?
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CBobRobison
@cr
Until they open source their hardware, it's a non-starter for me. You can use all the zk proofs in the world, but if the enclave you're using to generate them is proprietary, the entire system is potentially compromised.
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
@maxp.eth is your hardware OS?
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max
@maxp.eth
Yes! Here's the repo: https://github.com/worldcoin/orb-hardware
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CBobRobison
@cr
Apologies for being critical, but it's a little disingenuous to say yes the hardware is open source when the readme has a section called "What's not included: tamper detection system." I understand why this is the case, but it's still not truly open source yet. Still. I'm glad this is trending towards being more open.
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max
@maxp.eth
No worries. Of course we don’t want to include schematics of all security mechanisms in the Orb, that’s unlikely to change. But it should become less important over time as other hardware becomes available.
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CBobRobison
@cr
How would other hardware become available? Would it require new manufacturers to produce their own proprietary security mechanics from scratch? From some kind of standardized spec sheet? Is there ever a case where a new device could be made entirely open source?
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max
@maxp.eth
We don’t expect to be the only “Orb” producer long term. The math behind computing the iris code is public, so anyone could build a device to accomplish what we do.
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