I wonder if we'll see phone companies start blocking 2fs sms messages? They could be seen as a liability — rightfully so.https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/08/15/cryptocurrency-investor-sues-att-for-224-million-over-loss-of-digita.html …
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Though for the record, I would like to see AT&T lose this case, badly. If you design a system based on personal info you damn well should shoulder the liability when you screw it up.
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Baloney. Their system collects personal info for the purposes of phone billing, not for the purpose of trying to secure a relationship of two strangers trying to pretend they know each other because of said phone number.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @peterktodd
But they use that information for identity verification. Virtually every company uses this excuse to collect PII when they can neither guarantee protecting it nor actually verify against fraudsters. That is a faulty system screaming for more secure technology like zkp.
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"Identity" is very different for very different kinds of relationships. Phone company "identity" for their own billing purposes falls far short of being a secure way to maintain a relationship where one person is trusting another with $100,000s worth of bearer assets.
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