Re: What is the fundamental purpose of ID?
Money. Somehow, your employer needs to funnel payments into bank account you manage so that these funds can work their way to the sellers of socks, houses and cars. Of course, it is entirely possible to break these transactions up into swarms of TOR-class actions, there is a real cost in the wetware layer of the user to doing so. Nevermind the technical challenges of making such a system robust against well-motivated attackers (both at the individual and system levels).
We cannot get a usable system for signing emails. What kind of user interface do you propose to disaggregate identities across financial transactions?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
