Verifiable information, identities on the internet

Now that it is cheap to fabricate history, how can we trust anything?

October 31, 2024 — January 5, 2025

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We should probably have put human knowledge on adversarially cryptographically signed systems before now, but we didn’t. Now that it is cheap to fabricate history, how can we trust anything?

Obvious candidate solutions include:

Figure 1

1 Identity

2 Facts

3 Digital forensics

Adversarial post hoc verification of information. See Digital forensices.

4 Incoming