29 Stories To Learn About Identity

29 Sept 2023

Let's learn about Identity via these 29 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. The NuID Ecosystem: An Improved Identity Layer Putting Identity Ownership In Users’ Hands

The internet grew without an identity layer, meaning it grew without a reliable way of knowing or verifying who you were connecting to which can be dangerous.

2. Resolving the Career Identity Crisis That Comes With Pivoting

Pivoting in your career is often something positive. Still, it can come with unexpected negative feelings.

3. How Passwords Get Hacked

Fernando Corbato pioneered the first computer password in 1960, being used as a personal point of entry on MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Just 2 years later, the CTSS was hacked and has been inspiring hackers ever since. There have been immense technological advancements since 1962 - how is it that today's hackers can get through 2-step authentication, biometrics, and security questions? Cryptographers predict a future that moves beyond passwords, but the issue seems to lie between cybersecurity and human nature.

4. How we hacked Hacker Noon's "Most Exciting Startup" award and won

A cautionary tale of democracy online and why identity-based security is critical for elections large and small.

5. WTF is a Decentralized Identity?

Decentralised identity is the Sign In With Google equivalent for the physical world, except you are in control of your data.

6. Identity Management Unchained - Taking the Metaverse Red Pill

Technology should serve humans. But when combined with the wrong business model, it can turn individuals into non-player characters in a game dominated by tech.

7. Disinformation-as-a-Service: Content Marketing’s Evil Twin

Are you tired of all the BS out there on the internet? It's about to get A LOT worse. Dirt-cheap disinformation-as-a-Service campaigns are a thing now.

8. Orchestrating Identity in Web3.0

Identity needs a major re-think for Web 3.0. We need private and effective, dynamic authorization - but no, I am not talking about blockchain.

9. How to Know When Your Nonprofit Needs an Identity Solution

When your nonprofit has a ton of identities, it can easily become a problem. Find out when your organization needs an identity solution.

10. Which Communities within the Tech Industry Do You Identify With?

I wonder whether a person even identifies as a part of their said community in many cases. Different entities make communities as broad or narrow as they want.

11. 🆔 Plays 💻 for ₿; Legal KYC & Identification, "Online Identity" [Part 1]

A unique summarization of Online Identity perspectives

12. Type Identity and its Impact on API Design

When designing an API, it's easy to use public types that denote resource identity to allow actions on a resource.

13. Our Careers and Our Identity Capital

Identity capital is the accumulation of our personal assets, in other words, a culmination of things that make us who we are.

14. Cloud Complexity Causes Security Headaches - Can Identity Cure It?

As the cloud industry grew by leaps and bounds, it has become more compex, making it harder to keep data safe from hackers. Can Identity Management help?

15. 5 Guidelines for Effective Digital Identity Verification

The following best practices can help fintechs locate and approve new customers without friction or fraud while streamlining the customer journey.

16. A Guide to Authentication Methods

Staying safe on the internet has grown harder over the past few years as both technology and hackers have developed. Recently though, hackers are gaining an edge by not just manipulating the tech, but by manipulating the users themselves. In 2018, weak or stolen passwords were tied to over 80% of security breaches and in 2019, there were over 150,000 security incidents and nearly 4,000 confirmed data breaches. In 2020 alone, more than 15 billion stolen credentials were up for sale on the dark web. All this data points out the fact that our current way of protecting data is flawed, but making a new way to protect it while still maintaining security and convenience is a high mark to hit.

17. How the Quest for AI Could Make Us More Human

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a dominant part of everyday life. Whether you are aware of it or not, intelligent algorithms are all around us, trying to predict and understand you so they can help make your life easier in some way.