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Your phone number can circulate far beyond the service you gave it to. 📞
Signups, public records, apps, partners, and data brokers can all increase its exposure. Use a secondary number where practical and ask whether your real number is actually necessary.
Save this before your next signup.
#DataPrivacy #PhonePrivacy #DigitalIdentity #OnlineSafety #SourceLess
Signups, public records, apps, partners, and data brokers can all increase its exposure. Use a secondary number where practical and ask whether your real number is actually necessary.
Save this before your next signup.
#DataPrivacy #PhonePrivacy #DigitalIdentity #OnlineSafety #SourceLess
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𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐖𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝟑 | 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬 - 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏
The internet reduced distance in ways that would have been difficult to imagine just a few decades ago.
We can now work with people we’ve never met in person, learn from someone on another continent, discover cultures outside our own far more easily, publish without first asking an institution for permission, or find communities we might never have found around us.
But as we came to rely on these technologies more, access and connection could also become dependence.
Convenience can lead us to give up more control than we realize. Systems that bring people together can also limit what people see or what they are able to do, while concentrating enormous influence in a handful of companies.
What becomes normal online still comes down to human choices — including what we are willing to trade for convenience and what we are not.
You don’t need to understand how all of this works technically to be affected by it. We already rely on digital systems for communication, work, payments, storing memories, and a growing part of our creative lives.
When that infrastructure changes, our lives change with it.
𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬 — 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏 starts further back than SourceLess itself.
This first chapter looks at the technological path that made projects like it possible: from the early Web, through the platform era, to decentralization and digital ownership in Web3.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬.
👉 https://youtu.be/mc7-5DZQodA
#SourceLess #Web3 #HistoryOfTheWeb #InternetHistory #Decentralization #DigitalOwnership #Blockchain #FutureOfTheInternet #DigitalIdentity #WebEvolution
The internet reduced distance in ways that would have been difficult to imagine just a few decades ago.
We can now work with people we’ve never met in person, learn from someone on another continent, discover cultures outside our own far more easily, publish without first asking an institution for permission, or find communities we might never have found around us.
But as we came to rely on these technologies more, access and connection could also become dependence.
Convenience can lead us to give up more control than we realize. Systems that bring people together can also limit what people see or what they are able to do, while concentrating enormous influence in a handful of companies.
What becomes normal online still comes down to human choices — including what we are willing to trade for convenience and what we are not.
You don’t need to understand how all of this works technically to be affected by it. We already rely on digital systems for communication, work, payments, storing memories, and a growing part of our creative lives.
When that infrastructure changes, our lives change with it.
𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬 — 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏 starts further back than SourceLess itself.
This first chapter looks at the technological path that made projects like it possible: from the early Web, through the platform era, to decentralization and digital ownership in Web3.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬.
👉 https://youtu.be/mc7-5DZQodA
#SourceLess #Web3 #HistoryOfTheWeb #InternetHistory #Decentralization #DigitalOwnership #Blockchain #FutureOfTheInternet #DigitalIdentity #WebEvolution
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The internet became extremely good at moving information. But it never got that good at proving where that information came from, whether it had been altered, or who was actually on the other end.
Who created this?
Who owns it?
Has it been changed?
Is this really the person or credential it claims to be?
AI adds another question: 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐨?
SourceLess is tackling these questions inside one ecosystem through owned digital identity, on-chain records, private communication and AI connected to identity.
And “𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝” 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 than it sounds. It tells you what was checked. It doesn’t automatically tell you what’s true.
#SourceLess #DigitalIdentity #DigitalTrust #AI #Blockchain
Who created this?
Who owns it?
Has it been changed?
Is this really the person or credential it claims to be?
AI adds another question: 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐨?
SourceLess is tackling these questions inside one ecosystem through owned digital identity, on-chain records, private communication and AI connected to identity.
And “𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝” 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 than it sounds. It tells you what was checked. It doesn’t automatically tell you what’s true.
#SourceLess #DigitalIdentity #DigitalTrust #AI #Blockchain
