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[Din] WSJ article on Identity and Blockchains

Thomas Hardjono <hardjono@mit.edu> Fri, 06 April 2018 16:35 UTC

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Subject: [Din] WSJ article on Identity and Blockchains
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Folks,

I thought to share this WSJ article with the DIN group. Relevant in the light of recent interest in using BC for identity.

Advance apologies if it offends some people :-)

https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2018/04/03/digital-identity-is-broken-heres-a-way-to-fix-it/


Below is a link to a PDF version.

http://hardjono.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/WSJ_Digital_Identity_is_Broken.pdf


Best

-- thomas --

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