Humans are forgetful creatures. This leads to forgiveness. People act on this premise. But the Internet does not forget. People who do not forget, like Inspector Javert in "Les Misérables," are called heartless, and the damage they cause is called heartless. The careless introduction and use of identifiers, such as "universal immutable numbers," on the Internet will turn anyone on the Internet into a Javert. And what emerges is a "heartless society."
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What is required for digital identity?
There have been a lot of articles about digital identity circulating recently, but in this blog I would like to jot down whatever comes to mind, from meta-things like what exactly is required of digital identity, to implementation-related topics.
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