This also seems like an app ripe for actual creep / abusers to follow / manipulate.
The claim that it provides safety really is just that, an empty claim.
The claim that it provides safety really is just that, an empty claim.
A better way would have been to charge a small subscription fee - like $2/month or something. The fee filters out 99% of the trolls out there (who wants to pay to troll) and also gives the app/website admins access to billing info - name, mailing address, phone number, etc - without the need for a full ID scan. So the tiny amount of trolls that do pay to troll would have to enter accurate deanonymizing payment information to even get on the system in the first place.
And it can be made so only admins know peoples' true identities. For the user facing parts, pseudonyms and usernames are still very possible - again so long as everyone understands up front that such a platform would ultimately not be anonymous on the back end.
But oh no, that won't hypergrow the company and dominate the internet! Think of all the people in India and China you're missing out on! /sarcasm
That's Pure. And they have more than 5$ I believe.
It is not, indeed.
The first part is its goal: identity is secondary, the main purpose is money. It means a customer can put a fake name and address as long as the money part is considered OK. Most PSPs won't check the cardholder name (it can be used for fuzzy scoring, but exact match is a fool's errand). Address is usually only required for physical goods and won't be checked otherwise. And 3DSecure will shift the blame enough that the PSP won't need to care that much about the details.
The second part is the whole mess that comes with payments. You'll become a card testing pot in no time, and you'll be dealing with all the fuss just to check identities, you'll soon be rising the token payment to a significant amount to cover the costs, and before you realize it half your business has shifted into payment handling.
This is incorrect. The parent acts like it isn't trivial to obtain payment methods that aren't linked to the payer. It seems like a reasonable possibility.
For whom? For people willing to be an asshole on the internet? For people willing to stalk other people online? This sounds exactly like the group of people that would look for ways of paying for something in ways not linked to them, even if that means "borrowing" someone else's identity
The only reason I haven't is because it feels like LinkedIn may have already jumped the shark and I wouldn't really get the value for my money.
You'd get the lulz. That in itself can be mentally satisfying.
Tbh I've thought about trolling LinkedIn myself. It honestly needs to die.
And now you have a better chance at pointing a finger at someone, at the very least. And the thought of that finger pointing would be enough to keep an admin on top of things.
The issue is they decided to roll their own extremely questionable service and insecurely store sensitive images in a public bucket
Multiple SAAS vendors provide ID verification for ~$2/each. They should have eaten that fee when it was small and then found a way pass it onto the users later
- IDs usually contain enough information to totally steal a person's identity (beyond just their name and mailing address).
- IDs usually have secret security mechanisms beyond what's publicly known for a government to verify if an ID is real or not.
- 3rd party business systems can only verify the publicly known security stuff. And because that security stuff is public, it can get faked easily.
- IDs are super easy to fake.
- The only entity that can totally verify an ID is a government, because you'd have to verify the secret security mechanisms as well.
And there's a million reasons why you wouldn't necessarily want a government to verify an ID for a private business transaction.
Have you seen who has the blue checkmarks on Twitter/X now? I'll give you a hint, it's not the people who argue in good faith.
So the same as it was before you could buy them?
You've never visited X (formerly known as Twitter)?