Re: [projectvrm] Principles, personalities, anonymity and identity

[Doc Searls < >]

On Sep 26, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

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> On Sep 24, 2011, at 7:54, Doc Searls wrote:
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>> This brings us to the core paradox of Digital Identity: all we've found 
>> that works, so far, requires an Identity Provider (Facebook, Google, 
>> OpenID, whatever). And, as long as we require an Identity Provider, we 
>> won't have true anonymity.
> 
> I'd like the question an underlying assumption here (that, admittedly, 99%+ 
> of all people make, and so it's rarely discussed):
> 
> Just why exactly do we need a third party that is an "identity provider"?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Johannes.


The short answer is that we can't think of anything better. The long answer 
is thinking of something better.

IMHO.

Doc