I am definitely hacking this. Thanks
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#12Privacy by Design! - We use biometric identification to ensure a fair launch.
So collecting fingerprints and iris scans, Privacy by Design?
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#13> ensuring that every person on Earth can prove that they are indeed human >To address it, we built a new device called the Orb. It solves the problem through biometrics: the Orb captures an image of a person’s eyes I'm sure absolutely nothing can go wrong with this at all . Wow. I hope this is satire. Imagine what a major nation state intelligence agency could do with a data set of globally-unique eyeball vein patte…
I'm assuming they don't store the images in the same way we don't store plain text passwords.
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#14Wow it looks like YC / HackerNews is going all in on cryptocurrency! Congrats YC team!
For readers - a Senior Blockchain Engineer position is available! https://worldcoin.org/job/4001608004 HNers - apply now!
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#15Broken link for me, but you can see the original page here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211021151209/https://worldcoin...
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#17> ensuring that every person on Earth can prove that they are indeed human >To address it, we built a new device called the Orb. It solves the problem through biometrics: the Orb captures an image of a person’s eyes I'm sure absolutely nothing can go wrong with this at all . Wow. I hope this is satire. Imagine what a major nation state intelligence agency could do with a data set of globally-unique eyeball vein patte…
Well, they claim not to save the images, just a hash.
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#18> Launching a new global currency by giving a share of it to every human on earth
A share of nothing is still nothing.
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#19Price of eyes on the black market skyrockets, coroners and morticians start driving around in lambos.
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#20> ensuring that every person on Earth can prove that they are indeed human >To address it, we built a new device called the Orb. It solves the problem through biometrics: the Orb captures an image of a person’s eyes I'm sure absolutely nothing can go wrong with this at all . Wow. I hope this is satire. Imagine what a major nation state intelligence agency could do with a data set of globally-unique eyeball vein patte…
> Alex Blania, Sam Altman, and the Worldcoin team
O brave new world, that has such people in it!