The parent comment is does not talk about the political desirability of public identity, but rather makes (largely baseless as far as I can tell, unlike the article) claims about the technical security of one particular scheme.
> The perfect world where every instrument is applied fairly and in no other way, does not exist.
True – yet the absence of a government-provided system often means that inferior means of identity verification will have to be used by people and businesses. (Have you ever opened a bank account or credit card in the US?)
That's why we get absurd private initiatives like Worldcoin that seem every bit as dystopian as some of the more poorly implemented government-based ID schemes.
> The perfect world where every instrument is applied fairly and in no other way, does not exist.
True – yet the absence of a government-provided system often means that inferior means of identity verification will have to be used by people and businesses. (Have you ever opened a bank account or credit card in the US?)
That's why we get absurd private initiatives like Worldcoin that seem every bit as dystopian as some of the more poorly implemented government-based ID schemes.