Sam Altman's cryptocurrency turned identity verification startup Tools for Humanity is offering a new set of perks to people who scan their eyes at one of the company's orbs.
  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 hours

    Why shouldn’t we use biometrics for security?

    Because you can’t change them once they are compromised. It breaks so many rules for security it isn’t funny.

    Why are companies/government pushing for this?

    It is not about security, it is about tracking. This is the opposite of security and if we continue to allow it we will have severe consequences in our future.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 hours

    As far as I’m concerned, Tom Waits solved ticket scalping back in 1999. He did two shows in my area on the Mule Variations tour. When you bought tickets, you could only buy two, and you had to give a name. Not an id, just a name. And then at the door, you had to show ID. You would anyway because it was a 21-and-up show, but the name on the ID had to match the name on the ticket. They didn’t scan shit. Just the doorman glanced at the name, and compared it to what was printed on the ticket. You could buy as many pairs of tickets as you wanted under the same name, but you couldn’t then sell them to people because their ID wouldn’t match at the door.

    Simple. Non invasive. It worked. The show was amazing.

  • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14 hours

    Ahhh. Ticket scalping. The real issue of today’s generation that no one is courageous enough to talk about.

    • sbbq@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8 hours

      I mean, it is AN issue. We can do more than one thing at a time

  • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 hours

    The day I have to give some billionaire creep my biometrics to go to a show is the same day I decide I’m never going to a show again

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11 hours

    Oh so we are mass producing punchable faces now eh?

    Having just one wasn’t enough, Sam?

    Hope the next molotov finds its mark.

  • deathbird@mander.xyzEnglish
    21 hours

    You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That’s always been an option. Venues don’t do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.

    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14 hours

      they should just ban it for a profit, you should be able to resell tickets for what you paid for them, plans change.

    • talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14 hours

      Just as long as I can get a full refund if I’m unable to attend anymore. Maybe up to an hour before or something.

    • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zipEnglish
      17 hours

      How would you do this without verification? How do you still allow gift tickets or buying for a friend?

      • poopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14 hours

        Tickets are issued to a name and are confirmed at entry with photo ID, just like with an airline ticket.

        • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10 hours

          not much better than eye scanning.

          also does not solve the gifting problem, because normally you don’t know the ID of your friends

          • poopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10 hours

            You only need to know their names. Their ID matches their names to their faces.

    • rose56@lemmy.zipEnglish
      19 hours

      Or control the prices so people don’t overpay.

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
      21 hours

      I’m not sure I’d give him the #1 position. Definitely up there, but not quite at the top. Or maybe several megagrifters should share the throne.

      • pleb_maximus@piefed.zipEnglish
        20 hours

        Battle Royale of the megagrifters for the throne? Would surely sell some tickets, too. :3

    • minorkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19 hours

      Trump? Musk? There’s plenty of competition for #1. Atleast AI is actually a thing.

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1 day

    Weird how so many techbro ideas boil down to registering your identification with the techbros…

    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22 hours

      I can’t think of anyone I would rather give unalterable biometric information to than a group of egomaniacal sadists who have shown utter disregard for the privacy of everyone as well as the legal code.

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    19 hours

    Welcome to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, because this is an idea pulled straight from that game.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 hours

    The better to opress you with, my dear…biometric tracking everywhere for everything. We let them put microphones, cameras and location tracking, facial recognition in everything and everywhere, we might end up having to use LLMs as the interface to everything capturing voice, speech patterns, thought patterns…why the fuck not eyes, dna, fingerprints (wait, we already did that one)…

  • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1 day

    (1) Offer a solution which exacerbates bot-traffic on the internet, (2) legitimize the need for verification of users as a result, (3) offer the most privacy-invasive “solution” to the “problem” imaginable: problem(1)-reaction(2)-solution(3)… every parasite’s favorite paradigm :)

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22 hours

      I’m going to support local anti-authoritarian punk and hip hop until they do away with this.

  • magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

    Scam Altman: “Oh no - the bots are 2 good. Gaze into my black hole pls”

    Scam Altman: Literally gave birth to the bot technology.