Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)

Post by kiririn » Fri, Aug 26, 2022, 1:31 PM UTC

nulbyte wrote: post #169

dusted wrote: post #135

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Personally, I'm fully capable of doing that, but even then, it's all entirely dependent on the graces of random VPS providers, it's another route I'd rather not go, I already find it repugnant that the Internet service itself is in the hands of private entities which are under no obligation to provide any specific quality of service (not an enforceable one anyway, as I cannot really chose whose running the actual net…

I find RackNerd suits me just well. They are a great provider. I found them on Low End Boxes. I pay $25 a year. The only thing I ran into was the IP that was assigned was in one blacklist. It was one of the notoriously overzealous blacklists that hate everyone, though it was simple enough to request removal. No problems since.

Post by alexb_ » Fri, Aug 26, 2022, 1:38 PM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #19

thayne wrote: post #13

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Alternatively, give everyone an assymmetric encryption key associated with you identity. To prove your identity, you sign a challenge with your private key, and the other party verifies it using your public key (which could itself be signed your government). Although, for that to fully work,you would need international cooperation on a standard for that protocol.

Nah. Just have people generate their own keys. Then distribute a token to everyone, like registering to vote or NYC ID. Finally, have an official mixer like tornado cash that only works with these tokens. Ring signatures baby ! Now you distribute UBI, allow voting etc. And it is all pseudonymous. That’s what we are building out at Intercoin.org/applications btw :)

Post by tartoran » Fri, Aug 26, 2022, 1:43 PM UTC

drdec wrote: post #163

barrysteve wrote: post #89

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Same as whatever people do with their physical mail. Someone goes by a middle initial or you add a title to one and not the other. Your physical home address used to get printed under your photo in the 1940s newspapers. They stopped when people started to get murdered. I think there's good reasons we don't publicly ID off home addresses anymore. It sure would make life somewhat simpler if we could though.

> Your physical home address used to get printed under your photo in the 1940s newspapers. They stopped when people started to get murdered. Citation needed. Were the murderers foiled by having to use the phone book instead of the newspaper? Was it the lack of pictures that stopped them?

Post by jimcavel888 » Fri, Aug 26, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

causi wrote: post #170

dusted wrote: post #79

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I run my own mail server as well, on my own domain, own server, physically present in my home. It's increasingly becoming a hassle.. Especially sending mail from a "consumer" line is tricky, they block outgoing port 25 and no longer really provide a relay host for you to go through either.. I basically had to infiltrate my current ISP to get access to people in netops and gaslight them into configuring reverse-dns an…

Everyone deserves an e-mail that can't be taken away from them without a court order.

Post by kube-system » Fri, Aug 26, 2022, 2:02 PM UTC

afandian wrote: post #97

lisper wrote: post #62

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You mean like it actually is today with mobile phones?

This may be how it is in the States, but in the UK all mobiles phones start with 07 (other area residential codes start 01, 02 etc). I always found it weird that the US numbering system assumes that mobile phones are static. Must be some weird technical debt buried somewhere.