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On Monday 15 December 2014 at 6:40:22 PM, in <mid:548f2b16.1030...@sixdemonbag.org>, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > knowing that person > is also "the person who bought a bagel at a > delicatessen yesterday" and "the person who's driven a > Peugeot to work every day for the last three years" and > "the person who for the last several years has lived at > this address" all builds up to give us a sense of *what > choices this person has made* (agency) and *over what > time frame these choices have been made* (time). To me, that sounds far too invasive to be comfortable. > Once we have a concept of agency over time, that by > itself is an identity. A legal name specifies an > agent, but not an identity. Identity requires history. > A track record. A paper trail, as it were. I like that as a working desciption of Identity. But the track record does not need to be as all-encompassing as you describe above. I have a natural pre-disposition to not disclose "Fractions of an identity" that are not relevant to the specific identity enquiry. > For instance, visit this website: > https://keybase.io/rjh > You'll see a list of several "what I can do"s. Key > 0xD6B98E10 has been used to sign a tweet containing an > assertion of identity: "I am Rob Hansen, robertjhansen > on Twitter." Thereby, key 0xD6B98E10 has been bound > to my Twitter social-media identity [3]. You can pull > this tweet down from Twitter's own servers and verify > the statement yourself; you don't have to take > keybase's word for it. (In fact, you probably > *should* verify it for yourself.) > Likewise, I've made similar statements of identity for > my GitHub account and for a couple of web pages I run. > These disparate activities comprise a record of things > I have done (agency) over a time period (time), which > is ... identity. I know people who tend towards presenting a single blended identity, and people who compartmentalise the facets of their life as separate "fractions". I guess keybase is not a good "fit" for the latter group. - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQF7BAEBCgBmBQJUqfqTXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRCM0FFN0VDQTlBOEM4QjMwMjZBNUEwRjU2 QjdDNzRDRUIzMUYyNUYwAAoJEGt8dM6zHyXwfrEH+JzGEMxJROyLzgVNpmnUuQY0 n4sP5mIj8/54P2FdjE+R06GPNc2QHPjT2OsShWSwE4nn5+T5wLqMQpoCw72aMs8m 29DFWaQd5UiB7ZFrOskeTZf8lleBj1UWz5OmLloVc/dqD8l+e0ni15VYNcz16Dsv P2Aia35mt6ZRdpI1Wca0/412EWxmt8MAYe2RPAFegRNzYv+h6xqjCHnhD678veo9 MV0jXMnEyPuL3Ow6NollI7ekIpqxporjLsB8jlHzrVq6FIVGweA0tUlx9O93Xtmg Udra8zan4XhRARdH+j9iOW9xXc/O1NvXQnmiaTXNiu4amFH+ho/RvHYljMJUQIi+ BAEWCgBmBQJUqfqcXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9wZW5w Z3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQzM0FDRUQ0RUU5MTM0RUVCREU2QTg1MDYxNzEy QkM0NjFBRjc3OEU0AAoJEBcSvEYa93jkmBMBAHJsCeg4n0Ohl6EanWG8KMtizHM1 lOUqlzqEz/dw0iPAAQB16t2CYfFSRqDMx+avRGvTsy3TyFZGJOfUd2+JF3ueCw== =tRp4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
