It's only these modern servers that have the necessary smarts to ask a Web browser for its digital ID, read it back, and verify it. But there's a deeper, more insidious problem with digital IDs. I'll tell you about it next week. Talk back to Simson Garfinkel in his column's Threads . Illustration by Dave Plunkert Join the HotWired Network, it's free .
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