Once you start working on identity, you realize how flimsy the whole system is.

Once you start working on identity, you realize how flimsy the whole system is.

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-underground-site-where-ai-neural-networks-churns-out-fake-ids-onlyfake/

Decentralized identity. Building Heirloom.

I'm a weirdo, but I think public-key cryptography and your social graph are the only "strong' ways to solve this problem for real. Is that moment near or far from being mainstream? 🤷‍♂️ Heirloom.io is working hard on it. We'll see.

Example: the foundation of your entire identity is your birth certificate, which is the formalized word of your mother and a witness, often a doctor.

From a data perspective, there is no root "you."