Musk is a libertarian. Twitter is no longer publicly traded. It’s kind of a big deal. When he mentions “ authenticating humans “ in his statement earlier he’s talking about leveling the playing field. Meaning users can control their own authenticity and have more autonomy.Bluesky has been putting this in the works for a while.It’s really going to be ok. “The conceptual framework we’ve adopted for meeting these objectives is the “self-authenticating protocol.” In law, a “self-authenticating” document requires no extrinsic evidence of authenticity. In computer science, an “authenticated data structure” can have its operations independently verifiable. When resources in a network can attest to their own authenticity, then that data is inherently live – that is, canonical and transactable – no matter where it is located. This is a departure from the connection-centric model of the Web, where information is host-certified and therefore becomes dead when it is no longer hosted by its original service. Self-authenticating data moves authority to the user and therefore preserves the liveness of data across every hosting service.The three components that enable self-authentication are cryptographic identifiers, content-addressed data, and verifiable computation. The first two are familiar concepts in distributed systems, and the third is an emerging area of research that is not yet widely applied, but that we think will have large ramifications.Cryptographic identifiers associate users with public keys. Self-sovereign identity is based on having cryptographic identifiers for users. Control of an account is proved by a cryptographic signature from a user, rather than an entry in a database keeping track of logins.”
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