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Comment by drdaeman

Identity provisioning is an abomination that shouldn't have been invented. I used to be a fan back in mid-'00s, self-hosting an OpenID server, without realizing how the whole concept is so fundamentally flawed.

Identity is an innate and inalienable property of individual, not something that anyone else (another person, company/website, government or whoever else) can "provide". They can merely attest by providing a credential, by e.g. issuing a passport.

At least Webauthn got this right.

parent drdaeman 2 years ago

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