Okay, obviously Persona is terribad. There is a real problem to address here though: how are organizations supposed to perform reasonable identity verification at a distance? Sophisticated impersonation attacks hit customer support lines every day. We need a reasonable defense against this.

I'm asking because I honestly can't imagine a solution to this particular problem that is both:

  • User friendly
  • Acceptable to privacy advocates
@mttaggart It's a dilly of a pickle.