Traditional authentication methods have failed us. I'm still waiting for a reasonable alternative, but the best we've come up with are things like 2FA and magic links?
Companies insist on sucking as much data out of their users as possible. What are your options? Hand over your personal information and give hackers a reason to attack your favorite services? Create a million different phone numbers, burner addresses, and fake personas? How exhausting.
Then there's the problem of treating data like SSNs, phone numbers, and legal names as private. These things could be public if central authorities could do their jobs correctly, but we've shifted the blame of e.g. "identity theft" to the end user who ultimately has no control over this stuff.
Further, official ID/passport/etc. scans are required of so many transactions and I guarantee my slumlord does not follow good security practices so what can I do other than sit like a duck? Monitors like this are a noble effort, and I'll definitely use them, but it sucks that it's come to this.
Traditional authentication methods have failed us. I'm still waiting for a reasonable alternative, but the best we've come up with are things like 2FA and magic links?
Companies insist on sucking as much data out of their users as possible. What are your options? Hand over your personal information and give hackers a reason to attack your favorite services? Create a million different phone numbers, burner addresses, and fake personas? How exhausting.
Then there's the problem of treating data like SSNs, phone numbers, and legal names as private. These things could be public if central authorities could do their jobs correctly, but we've shifted the blame of e.g. "identity theft" to the end user who ultimately has no control over this stuff.
Further, official ID/passport/etc. scans are required of so many transactions and I guarantee my slumlord does not follow good security practices so what can I do other than sit like a duck? Monitors like this are a noble effort, and I'll definitely use them, but it sucks that it's come to this.