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David Boles

@HistoPol @paul

Deep fakes are real, and here -- and proving you didn't do it will increasingly become impossible.

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Craig Nicol replied to David

@david @HistoPol @paul am I going to have to start cryptographically signing all my posts?

David Boles replied to Craig

@craignicol @HistoPol @paul

Not your posts -- your face and your voice! Where is Elon when we need cryptographic brain implants to sign our every thought?

HistoPol (#HP) replied to David

@david @craignicol @paul

Facial and voice recognition would be even worse, due to #identitytheft

Last year, I declined a good offer from a financial institution because I was only possible through video conferencing and authentication.

No go for me.

Nowadays, you cannot know what might be illegal next year.

David Boles replied to HistoPol

@HistoPol @craignicol @paul

You should try to verify your identity with Facebook sometime. They want a photo. Dated paper with your signature. Code numbers on the paper. Government ID. And it's all verified by a Bot and if the Bot can't read all that, you can't get back on because there are no humans looking at anything unless it's a special circumstance.

HistoPol (#HP) replied to Craig

@craignicol @david @paul

If that were be the case, I would not be posting anymore. At all.

Hundreds of thousands of people have suffered data breaches at the big SM sites.

If that info goes to a) authoritarian states or b) to (some) Red states and it is about abortion

...you are in really DEEP trouble.

When #Elmo tried to localize me through emphatically requesting that I enter my phone number, I decided to stay #twitterbanned

ABSOLUTE #dealbreaker IMHO.

Bluedepth replied to David

@david @HistoPol @paul I had an idea of turning TOTP into a kind of reality-proving mechanism for anti-deepfake videos. We use it for 2FA/MFA, but flipping it inside out it could be a mathematically derivable serial number that could prove reality and time stamp. But I’m just a nobody with a chatterbox brain, so pffft. ;)

HistoPol (#HP) replied to Bluedepth

@Bluedepth @david @paul

Sounds thrilling. But #DeepFakes are only my second concern.

With the increasing number of authoritarian #GreatFirewall countries and the sell-out of customer data on the #BorgSites, I am more concerned about being identifiable and subject to profiling.

David Boles replied to HistoPol

@HistoPol @Bluedepth @paul

I'm not sure why that bothers you -- because it's already happened!

David Boles replied to Bluedepth

@Bluedepth @HistoPol @paul

These are good thoughts and really important conversations to have!

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