Verification, it’s the cats meow!

@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-04-28 15:11

This is why biometrics are not credentials for authenticity. This problem is already solved with asymmetric cryptography. Important additions being that it should be easy for users to make secure backups of their private keys, and they should be able to replace their keys whenever they're comprised

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@Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 18:37

Internet access database perfect place for your government id. Shoddy database hold your official id securely. No problem data leak. Upload photo of id to porn id db. pelican.jpg

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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 03:49

I just give them fake data. If someone knows the right fake data, it's me. Funny thing is, it turns out half my family uses the same fake data. They all *really* liked the last cat I had. The name of that cat (Jeff) is the color of the first car I had, and apparently two of my brothers did that exact same thing

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@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-27 22:44

I really do wish everyone making fun of me for not using big 3 corpo net products would get all their data stolen from their gmails and Apple devices so they stop trusting them.

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@bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2026-04-28 04:49

We should just skip the steps and just use documents from these data breaches to verify "ourselves".

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@agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 22:59

I miss business cat

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@flippinfreebird@lemmy.today 2026-04-27 19:36

My company requires the Okta (owned by Oracle) certification app to access our W-2. I can't get it because I don't have the app.

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@Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 19:42

I preferred the days when we had to stay late at the office to catch the red dot.