Verifiable information, identities on the internet
Now that it is cheap to fabricate history, how can we trust anything?
2024-10-31 — 2025-01-05
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We should probably have put human knowledge on adversarially cryptographically signed systems before now, but we didn’t. Now that it is cheap to fabricate history, how can we trust anything?
- Provenance mechanisms
- data soverignty
Obvious candidate solutions include:
- Web3 blockchain, e.g. decnet.
- Other cryptographic stuff
- trusted state institutions?
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1 Identity
2 Facts
TBC
3 Digital forensics
Adversarial post hoc verification of information. See Digital forensices.