It’s very cool that we seem to be more or less on the same page.
I agree with 1Q7FE6zp about anonymization but i’m pretty sure it would be reasonably easy to set up a website to issue universal-id’s that verify one as an individual by authorizing $1 against a credit-card, though it would cost the website a small amount to make those checks through the existing channels.
All governments are going to be able to establish a 1:1 correspondence between individual-body and individual-number sooner or later, it’s basically inevitable if you want honest online voting on any level, it’s almost as obvious as a telecommunication industry owned by the state that wishes to implement honest online voting. If any actually do, there’s so much paranaoia floating around right now.
But here’s the advantage i see in what i have in mind, which i probably haven’t stated well at all. Let’s say there is a website, call it “UFOI” for “Universal Federation Of Individuals” just as an example.
So you go to ufoi.org and you register, with a credit-card, or something else that can be provided to the local government when they come with a supoena and demand the information so they can track down that scurrilous barstid “crankypuss”. I know the goobermint can track me down, but they don’t have any reason to. They can always generate “cause” if they choose to, it takes some kind of semantic-inversion-parser not installed in my head to say what the new laws even mean, much less how some government agent will choose to enforce them; iow the cops can do what they please because the laws were written by “legislators” which means that any hacker worth his salt could waltz right in and do what he pleases and you’re just another loudmouth Rodney King and the world moves on.
So you obtain this magic number that identifies your body, and you have to know that whatever nation you’re unfortunate enough to suffer, if they know who you are, they can find you. This just puts you on more equal ground, because you can keep the people who don’t already know your real name and street address from finding it unless you choose to tell them.
You go to ufoi.org and you register, then you get to make up some handles. Maybe you want one called “FatFreddieCat”, so you tell ufoi.org you want that one. As long as you don’t already own that one, you get it; it’s concatenated with an encrypted form of your universal id, so it would be something like “l48xjw5.FatFreddieCat” and that identifies you as one individual, call him “Joe”.
So Joe has a universal id of 123456 which is encrypted as l48xjw5. The individual you named “Joe” can now call himself FatFreddieCat". Other websites can contact ufoi.org with a message like, “verify l48xjw5.FatFreddieCat” and receive a true/false reply that says “l48xjw5.FatFreddieCat” is a real human, uniquely identifiable, fully susceptible to being banned from any given discussion group as a troll, and there’s no way anybody else is going to find out your real name is “Joe” unless they’re told.
I think; the only hole i’m seeing atm is that “l48xjw5.FatFreddieCat” can be typed in by anybody, so you still need ONE password, and that’s the knowledge of what “l48xjw5” is. IOW it’s like any other login to any other forum, where you have a userid and password. Only your password is “l48xjw5” and your userid is “FatFreddieCat”. And your password works the same for all your handles alike. One password, no tracks to hack and get your actual name without ufoi.org surrendering the information.
Whatever, i’m pretty sure that if the concept of nations survives for the next 5 or 10 years, we’re going to have something shoved up our noses because they’ll be able to put DNA scanners where the fingerprint scanner is on your cellphone then they’ll have both your DNA and your fingerprint, and the technology will become so cheap they can put it in disposable cigarette lighters.
I’m not 100% sure about the structure i described above, usually i check stuff like that with some code, but i’m short on time lately.
