Sam’s iris harvesting plan will continue as long as the incentive, worldcoin, holds value.
There were coins printed out of nothing by a guy called Sam backing an enterprise last time too.
evbogue · 6h ago
I don't understand how this works.
If they aren't storing the iris scans, then how can this be used to login with your iris scan?
schwartzworld · 3h ago
Instead of storing plaintext passwords, most companies store a hash of that password, essentially applying a one-way transformation to it and saving the result of that. I don’t have to know your password, I can just apply the hash algorithm to whatever you enter in the input and if that matches, we’re golden.
No reason you couldn’t apply the same philosophy to biometric data.
evbogue · 3h ago
Yes, I agree on passwords since the characters are the same every time.
Does every iris scan produce the same hash though?
solumunus · 2h ago
Does your iris change between scans? I assume not.
shaftway · 1h ago
Does it need to be exactly the same? I assume it's a perceptual hash with a liveness check.
There were coins printed out of nothing by a guy called Sam backing an enterprise last time too.
If they aren't storing the iris scans, then how can this be used to login with your iris scan?
No reason you couldn’t apply the same philosophy to biometric data.
Does every iris scan produce the same hash though?