I hope they do this, it'd make the APIopolypse look like a practice run.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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They will have to rip my fucking eyes out before I let them scan them with this thing.
Your iris/fingerprint scanner is only secure until someone is willing to rip out an eyeball/finger.
Or counterfits good enough beat the scanner someone is willing to pay for, a bank might have a super good system but would all the other branches that would use something like this, would even an ATM in a bad neighbourhood has as good of a scanner as one in a higher class area if they can save some money?
Just no. I use reddit because it's pseudonimous. I would never reveal my id on reddit of all places, regardless of how useful it can be.
That's a good point. Out of all the social networks, Reddit has been the least interested in getting your personal identification.
Most other social networks explicitly require you to provide a phone number, or implicitly require you to register from your home's IP address, or sometimes both.
I heard this news a couple years ago. No chance in hell it happens
... and they're gonna need a bone marrow sample to verify
I think the appropriate headline should be:
"Reddit in talks to embrace iris-scanning Orb to verify users created by man alleged by his own sister to have molested her throughout her childhood beginning at age 3."
Glad I left that shithole.
The one Orb you don't ponder.
And you need to donate a kidney.
Hey, it's reddit, it'll be worth it to see all those ai bots talk to eachother, Right?
So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can't achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.
Ahh so they'll use this to eliminate bots and multi-account trolls right?
right??????!!?!?
It reminds me of the eyeballs in linqspace in Beneath a Steel Sky.
lol. That stupid Orb thing is still around?
No human needs this, this is the march of the companies against humanity.