[typeiierror]

Brian K. Vaughan's comic Private Eye [1] foreshadows what might happen if this dataset is breached. The premise is the digital cloud "bursts" - all private data is suddenly dumped and searchable - forcing people to completely abandon their identities and assume new ones - changing their name, appearance, re-starting their careers, etc.

When you consider this in the context of technologies like Voco [2] and Face2Face [3] that can fabricate a speech or make a fake "hot mic" video from a public figure, it makes you wonder if we'll ever be able to prove things are __true__ in the future, and what the value of our identity is if it can be shattered beyond repair due to negligence from a third party. What do we do then? How do you cryptographically sign yourself?

[1] http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye [2] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37899902 [3] http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/~niessner/thies2016face.htm...

[vslira]

> How do you cryptographically sign yourself?

Now that's a problem whose solution deserves a unicorn valuation