Comment on Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My understanding is the premise of world coin is to provide identity verification somehow, but I don’t get how is it supposed to work?
Also how does it benefit the network to have scanned irises for people who don’t care about world coin or understand how it works?
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
You’re looking at it wrong. This is a scheme to collect mass amounts of biometric data. What’s the end goal? No idea, but I I doubt it’ll be to the benefit of mankind.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I didn’t say it was good or I support it. I’m trying to understand it. Which is usually an important step to effectively combat something.
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Even if you believe that, and trust the people running these scanning stations, synthetic images generated from biometric hashes are still a thing, such as with Masquerade.
ours@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fingerprint ID does not work with hashes, you need images. I’ve worked with NGOs and integrated biometric identification systems.
I haven’t had to pull the iris data out but I’m certain they where also stored as bitmap images. In any case, the iris scanners most certainly sent images to us and not hashes. Why send an image if all you need is a hash?
In any case nobody outside can tell what some crypto scam is doing with those scans and I sure wouldn’t trust them.