Identity Woman
Independent Advocate for the Rights and Dignity of our Digital Selves
I chatted with Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls of Reality 2.0 about the dangers of ID.me, a national identity system created by the IRS and contracted out to one private company, and the need for the alternatives, decentralized systems with open standards.
We see democracy as ideally a process of co-creating the conditions of our shared lives, solving our collective problems, and learning about life from and with each other.
Most of the social technologies for democracy we work with are grounded in conversation – discussion, dialogue, deliberation, choice-creating, negotiation, collective visioning, and various forms of council, assembly, conference, and so on.
Democratic technologies, thought of and used in this way, can be applied in creative new ways that enable people to become more engaged with each other, with better results and less wasted, counter-productive energy, thus moving towards more successful, enjoyable self-governance. They operate at a variety of scales from small groups, organizations, and networks to whole societies.
| This is the text of an email I got today from a company that i had a contract with last year. It is really really really annoying the whole process of sending secure communications and documents. Once I finished reading it – I was reminded quite strongly why we need DIDComm as a protocol to enable the secure transport of all sorts of things not just signed VCs but intermediate uses – just PDF based things that have important information. Greetings from Tax1099.com ! |
| Your 1099-NEC was submitted by COMPANY X for 2021. |
| Instructions for opening the form: Click on the attachment provided with this email. You will be prompted for your password, which is 8 characters. Please enter the first 4 letters of the name listed after the word ‘Dear…’ at the beginning of this email, all lowercase, and the last 4 digits of the tax ID (either SSN/EIN or ITIN). |
| For example:1. If your name appears on the form as Mary May with an SSN of 711223456, then the password would be mary3456 (first 4 characters of your Full Name / Business Name + last 4 digits of your SSN/ITIN number). 2. If your business name appears on the form as A & D with ITIN as 012847934, then the password would be ad7934 (first 2 characters without spaces and special characters of your organization name + last 4 digits of your ITIN/EIN number). 3. If your business name appears on the form as Mary May PLLC with ITIN as 012847934, then the password would be mary7934 (first 4 characters of your organization name + last 4 digits of your ITIN/EIN number). 4. If your name appears on the form as Al & D with ITIN as 517223355, then the password would be ald3355 (first 3 characters (ignore special characters and spaces) of your Full Name / Business Name since the Full Name / Business Name is shorter than 4 characters + last 4 digits of your SSN/ITIN number). 5. If your name appears on the form as Mary May without an SSN/ITIN number, then the password would be mary (first 4 characters of your Full Name / Business Name). 6. If your name appears on the form as Al & D without SSN/ITIN number, then the password would be ald (first 3 characters (ignore special characters and spaces) of your Full Name / Business Name since the Full Name / Business Name is shorter than 4 characters). 7. If your name or business name appears on the form as My Test with TIN as 012847934, then the password would be myte7934 (first 4 characters of your name or organization name + last 4 digits of your TIN/EIN/SSN number). |
| If you encounter any problem in opening your eForm, please check whether:1.You have entered the first 4 characters of your name/organization name (in lowercase letters). 2.You have entered the last 4 digits of your SSN/ITIN/EIN number. |