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Many 20th century systems will melt down in a low-trust, high-tech environment. Fraud rates will just get out of control. We’ll need to rebuild those systems with cryptography. Digital signatures are much harder to fake than signatures. In the medium run, states will need to replace the signature-checking step with a digital-signature-checking step. In practice, that could be as simple as having Texas state incorporate Google/Apple-style auth, and then require digital actions on deeds to be authenticated via passkeys and/or Yubikeys. This can be generalized. The state becomes a digital platform and any updates to official registries require the equivalent of a passkey to make that update. Existing mechanisms for passport/ID issuance could be modified to facilitate this, and to execute other attestations like proof-of-human. https://t.co/JhTNXI3y6B