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ian c rogers
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There's a new protocol from @ledgerofficial that gives you more control over your data. Read the White Paper below. Last week @Ledger announced Ledger Key Ring Protocol, which allows users to use Ledger devices for encrypted key management. 🧵 🪡👇
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This has many potential uses, but for me the most exciting is a new way of looking at the user’s ownership and control over their data. https://www.ledger.com/blog-ledger-key-ring-protocol-secure-data-sharing You can read the White Paper here, and comments are welcome: https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-key-ring-protocol-whitepaper/blob/a7ecef7376c3d2d87e8a44cf536d3c1e1a4c1bdc/Ledger%20Key%20Ring%20Protocol%20Technical%20White%20Paper.pdf
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Why Ledger Key Ring Protocol? I started “living on the Internet” in college circa 1990. The way you gained access to a server was with your username and login. When the World Wide Web emerged in the early to mid-90s, Websites wanted to save your information, preferences, and application state so they asked you for a username and password too.
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Eventually your email address became your username and most Websites started to save all your activity using your email address as the identifier. “Web 2.0” emerged in the 2000s, and login started consolidating behind your Facebook, Google, or Apple accounts.
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The question now is, “who owns you?” If you really want to feel the degree to which you are owned by one of these companies, try moving from an iPhone to Android or vice versa. The “lock in” is painful and intentional.
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We willingly hand over data about our behavior and preferences on and offline to companies (Apple, Google, ByteDance, Uber, and every company in partnership with that airport wi-fi you just logged into) who use that data to bring us all kinds of conveniences (funnier videos, driving directions, restaurant recommendations, “targeted” advertisements).The downsides of this have been well documented in films such as The Great Hack and books such as Surveillance Capitalism.
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