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Nicod 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇷nicod@diaspodon.fr
2025-06-19

En Iran, 24 personnes arrêtées pour espionnage au profit d’Israël et atteinte à l’image du pays

lemonde.fr/international/live/

La répression commence, elle va être aveugle et terrible. Le pouvoir n'est pas tombé, il a été humilié et réclame vengeance par le sang.

Cette guerre est illégale, au regard du droit international, mais les dirigeants occidentaux la soutiennent.

Deux poids, deux mesures, comment garder un discours clair contre la Russie après ça ?

Terence Eden’s Blogblog@shkspr.mobi
2021-06-19

How do you link Verifiable Credentials to a human?

shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/how-d

Verifiable Credentials are a brilliant standard to help... well... Verify Credentials. How do you know that someone has an MBA from Harvard? It's pretty easy to fake a degree certificate, or to change your name to George W. Bush, or simply lie. The same is true with any attestation - it's often hard to contact the issuer of a claim and check that it is genuine.

Verifiable Credentials aims to solve that. The standard describes a document which includes the claim (this person is an airline pilot), the person's identity (name, DOB, etc), the party making the claim (Name, ID, date of issuing), and a digital signature to tie it all together. (It is a lot more complicated than that, obviously.)

Let's take a look at the data inside COVID Vaccine "Passport". I've removed some of the metadata for simplicity, but you can read the full spec if you're interested.

   {   "ver": "1.0.0",   "nam": {     "fn": "Smith",     "gn": "Jo",   },   "dob": "1984-02-29",   "t": [     {       "tg": "840539006",       "tt": "LP217198-3",       "tr": "260415000",       "ma": "1232",       "sc": "2021-04-13T14:20:00+00:00",       "dr": "2021-04-13T14:40:01+00:00",       "tc": "GGD Fryslân, L-Heliconweg",       "co": "NL",       "is": "Ministry of VWS",       "ci": "urn:uvci:01:NL:GGD/81AAH16AZ"     }   ]},"YR/yMsyE3AOysWLCXuDc/Rlu507gH0/wgok+P8dxJtCwy0ydsIE2J5MeMxbynynU3n//zgOKSTB20FN0Fs1bgQ=="

It tells you the person's name, date of birth, when they had the vaccine, which vaccine it is, who administered it, some administrative codes, and then gives it a digital signature which can be verified without needing an Internet connection. Nifty!

The same is broadly true with academic qualifications. It lists your names, birthday, university, level obtained. Or your employment history can be encoded with your employment dates, salary, references.

So you can show the above - encoded as a QR code - to anyone. They can scan it and verify that it is authentic! AWESOME!

Except...

How do you prove that you're the person mentioned in the credential?

You could show your passport or driving licence at the same time. Assuming you can afford either of those documents. But that still leaves the same problem. How do you prove that the passport belongs to you? Perhaps you grabbed it at the same time you stole the certificate.

Humans are not very good at recognising faces from photos. So comparing the picture of me in my passport (young! clean shaven! well lit!) with the person in front of you (old and tired! beardy! under a street lamp!) is always going to be error prone.

This isn't a problem which can be solved by adding more digital signatures. Even if I co-signed the credential with my private key - you have no way of linking that key to a corporeal human being.

A Verifiable Credential could also contain a hash of biometric data like a fingerprint, for example. But that leads to further problems. Are people comfortable giving away their biometrics to lots of different organisations? Do verifiers want the extra expense of getting fingerprint readers? That might work for an airport, but is probably prohibitive for a café. You could use proxies - did I see this person unlock their phone to present the claim - but these are weak ties at best.

To be clear, this problem isn't limited to vaccine certificates. It applies to any Verifiable Credential. Whether it is an academic qualification, a health certificate, employment status, or any other claim.

This isn't something which can be solved by putting a claim on a blockchain (lolsob) - it is a fundamental limitation of the fact that humans don't come with built in, irrevocable, digital signatures.

#ID #identity

Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-06-18

#politics #trump #enviroment #pollution #oil #alt #EPA #development #monuements #forsale #landgrab #publiclands #alaska #Az #CA #CO #ID #NM #NV #OR #UT #WA #WY #BLM #NFS

Heather Cox Richardson 6/17/2025
FREE FOR ALL SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES MONUMENTS NEXT? PASS THE WORD CALL!!!!!!

Heather Cox Richardson 6/17/2025

FREE FOR ALL SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES MONUMENTS NEXT? PASS THE WORD CALL!!!N Also yesterday, outdoor journalist Wes Siler reported in Wes Siler’s Newsletter that while language inserted in the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill requires the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of publicly owned land, an amendment authorizes the sale of 258 million acres more over the next five years. The amendment comes from the Sencte Energy and Natural Resources Committee and was written by Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Steve Daines (R-MT).

It includes Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands in 11 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. As Siler notes, while the measure does not currently include national monument lands, the Department of Justice under Trump is arguing that the president can revoke national monument protections. If it did so, that would make another 13.5 million acres available for purchase.

Siler notes the process for selling those lands calls for an enormous rush on sales, "“all without hearings, debate, or public input opportunities.”
2025-06-17

@vanillaweb Just having written a tutorial (mastrojs.github.io/guides/inte) and used .querySelector(“#id”) there, I admit I was a bit worried there for a moment. To be fair, I still think for simple cases it can be the right thing to do. That’s why my tutorial teaches it before moving on to web components.

Le_M_Poireau ⏚Le_M_Poireau
2025-06-16
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-06-16

@benroyce the fact that #cops ain't forced to #ID themselves with their legal name, DOB, POB, legal Address, SSN and license plate is the issue!

Jimmy Bergkvistjimpalimpa@mastodon.nu
2025-06-16

Utan att ha läst rapporten känner jag att det måste vara svårt, nästan omöjligt, att svara på frågan: hur många lever och verkar i #Sverige utan vare sig samordnings- eller personnummer?

Jag tänker då att en myndighet kanske bör svara: vet ej / svårt att svara på / omöjligt att svara på
istället för att komma med GROV uppskattning som rassenassar kommer blåsa upp och ut i medier.

omni.se/over-100000-utan-perso

#Skatteverket #ID #Skuggsamhället

2025-06-15

A couple of flower photos from today's walk around Angle Bay.

Help in identifying the Iris appreciated: is it the native UK species or has it escaped from someone's garden?

Also, are the yellow flowers Broom or Birds-Foot Trefoil? I couldn't see any foliage to speak of, it was all mixed up with vetch.

#ukwildflowers #iris #pea #clover #id

A blue Iris flower, photographed from such an angle that it forms an X shape. The lower petals are pale blue to white, but heavily veined in dark blue. There are three of these, but one is hidden from view behind the centre of the flower. There are also three upper petals, one pointing at the camera, which are a light blue. A further three structures, beige in colour, sit between the upper petals. I don't know what they are.

The stem is bright green, but is mostly obscured by a second flower, which is malformed or only partially open.

Some dark green leaves can be discerned in the background.A moderately close-up view of a white clover flower head, with clover leaves and some blades of grass in the backgound.A cluster of bright yellow flowers, similar in form to pea flowers. More such clusters are in the background, along with blades of grass and other indistinct foliage.
2025-06-15

6/14/25💪 #Boise #ID 🇺🇸

2025-06-14

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and whatever you resist, persists.

#USpol #NoKings #AL #AK #AZ #AR #CA #CO #CT #DC #DE #FL #GA #HI #ID #IL #IN #IA #KS #KY #LA #ME #MD #MA #MI #MN #MS #MO #MT #NE #NV #NH #NJ #NM #NY #NC #ND #OH #OK #OR #PA #RI #SC #SD #TN #TX #UT #VT #VA #WA #WV #WI #WY

Verfassungklage@troet.cafeVerfassungklage@troet.cafe
2025-06-14
2025-06-14

Reject plans for mandatory #BritCard digital ID

#Starmer considering mandatory digital #ID scheme called BritCard that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives

Mandatory digital #IDs give the state enormous control treating citizens with #suspicion

Introducing one in #Britain fundamentally changes our relationship with the state, eroding our rights, freedoms

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions

#freedom #BigBrother #PoliceState #Labour #surveillance #privacy #HumanRights

Le_M_Poireau ⏚Le_M_Poireau
2025-06-13
Adam Dalliancepre@boing.world
2025-06-13

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.

First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?

Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.

So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.

Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.

Um. Okay. So?

Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.

Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?

Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?

Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.

God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.

#id #government #oneLogin

2025-06-12

イスラエルによって拘束されているMadleen乗船メンバーのうち
リマ・ハッサン欧州議会議員を含む6人が
空港に向かっている途中。
これから送還される予定とのこと。

リマ・ハッサン氏以外のメンバーの内訳は
フランス人もう1人、ドイツ人、トルコ人、オランダ人、ブラジル人。

lemonde.fr/international/live/

2025-06-11

#EAS #WEA for Bonneville, #ID; #Caribou, #ID: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 4:15 PM MDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Pocatello ID ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

Tornado Warning -  - NWS Pocatello ID

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