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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. Mason Hartman  🏃🏻 ✂️‏ @webdevMason Apr 25

      Mason Hartman  🏃🏻 ✂️ Retweeted Mason Hartman  🏃🏻 ✂️

      Dunno the space, so maybe I'm horribly wrong, but — it seems to me that a highly effective ID verification system that's highly resistant to fraud and theft (proactively & reactively) would be a great product for a solid technical founder, & all the pieces are prob already extanthttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/988780020070989824 …

      Mason Hartman  🏃🏻 ✂️ added,

      Mason Hartman  🏃🏻 ✂️ @webdevMason
      And kudos to the federal government, who brilliantly decided that your *identity* should be password-protected with a single permanent non-random nine-digit number that you must routinely give to total strangers just to function in life
      Show this thread
      7 replies 0 retweets 19 likes
    2. John Backus‏ @backus Apr 25
      Replying to @webdevMason

      This and your credit reporting tweet are pretty relevant to me (technical founder of both http://cognitohq.com  and http://bloom.co ). Will share a few thoughts in followup tweets

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    3. John Backus‏ @backus Apr 25
      Replying to @backus @webdevMason

      For fraud, people tend to use http://siftscience.com  and in-house data science/ML for automatic detection. Prevention falls more to 2FA, detecting unrecognized devices, etc. If you want to get extreme, you link user's phones and then also monitor to see if their phone is ported.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      John Backus‏ @backus Apr 25
      Replying to @backus @webdevMason

      Linking in external devices is also a part of identity. Part of Cognito's goal is to center identity around phone number and not SSN when possible since you can verify someone is in control of their phone. SSN is often still required though due to KYC.

      1:47 PM - 25 Apr 2018
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        2. John Backus‏ @backus Apr 25
          Replying to @backus @webdevMason

          John Backus Retweeted John Backus

          Outside of KYC, we'd be better off if everyone could authenticate and prove who they are with private keys. It just comes down to network effects and usability which are held back by each other. Motivation behind this tweet:https://twitter.com/backus/status/987063369730408448 …

          John Backus added,

          John Backus @backus
          Tying biometrics and mobile devices to crypto people can actually use is super valuable. The blockchain craze is a trojan horse for realizing this. 🔑 Passwords → Signatures 🚪 Login with FB → Global login via managed keychain ☑️ Verified by Twitter → Verified by public key
          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Mason Hartman  🏃🏻 ✂️‏ @webdevMason Apr 25
          Replying to @backus

          Could you talk a bit about why there's a usability vs. network effects tradeoff? (This is super interesting!)

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. John Backus‏ @backus Apr 25
          Replying to @webdevMason

          No one does login w/ private key (vs password) because there aren't easy tools shipped w/ browsers. A startup would have to sell a weird unproven alternative to passwords and for what gain? Big co would rather build a moat and data treasure trove via login with FB/Google/FaceId

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        5. John Backus‏ @backus Apr 25
          Replying to @backus @webdevMason

          Glad it is interesting! Happy to answer other questions on this stuff. The legal identity stuff is more just info about the industry I've learned over time. The stuff about why we don't use private keys is much more personal opinion

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