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Identity Plurality

Orthodoxy in e-security holds that we must separate "authentication" of who someone is, from "authorisation" of what they can do. The distinction is actually arbitrary and unhelpful.

A more powerful, more general idea than the orthodox separation of primary authentication and secondary authorisations, is that we really exercise a portfolio of separate identities. It is not helpful to insist on there being just one "true" identity which must be necessarily involved in every transaction.

See Babystep 15: Introducing "Identity Plurality".

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