[OpenID] Long live the plebs!!! :-D Re: What are openids weaknesses?

[Peter Williams]

You are saying that if I use a virtual openID in a virtual reality
community issued by a virtual OP, I can still be accountable for acts
performed and representations made in the real world.

 

If a (SAML2 pseudonym NameID-based) naming firewall between the virtual
reality world and the real world is breached, yes the nastygram I sent
in my virtual presence via my virtual OpenID (as verified using
assertions of my virtual infocard) can be used to hold me accountable in
Thailand today when it adjudged that my persona did defame the King of
Thailand enthroned in 1550.

 

Or, yes, you can be legally recognized as an unindicted co-conspirator,
and - yes - employers need not hire you because of that (legal) fact.
Have a formal arrest record (as witness, merely) that is also lawful
basis for discrimination.

 

But there is at least another level playing with the difference between
denotational and referential semantics of identity. If I enter a virtual
space with my openid-identified avatar, and I then virtual dollars to
buy and play an virtual-online  role playing game as George Washington
doing with my human property howsoever I actually did historically
(censored), should I be accountable in this world for the behavior
there, even when merely role playing historical fact, as judged by
current proscriptions about hate and human dignity?

 

Yes, say I. 

 

Asymmetric information warfare is all about this juxtaposition of
identities and the associated realities. 

 

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