Facebook User Privacy Has Been Leaked Repeatedly, Decentralized Digital Identity Is Not Empty Talk
In the past week, the incident that caused the entire network to shake was all Facebook downtime. On September 4th, Western Time, Facebook faced the largest and longest-lasting downtime in history. It is said that Facebook’s engineers mistakenly issued an instruction to cut off all network connections of Facebook’s data centers worldwide. This erroneous operation has also affected all relevant Facebook applications, including platforms such as Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger, and even some corporate services and internal working systems. On that day, Facebook’s stock price plummeted by nearly 5%, and tens of billions of market value instantly evaporated. And this only harms Facebook’s own interests. What is more noteworthy caused by this incident is that the data of 1.5 billion Facebook users has been leaked!
According to relevant media reports, during the global network service interruption, the data of more than 1.5 billion Facebook users were sold on hacker forums. The data sold includes the user’s name, email, phone number, location, gender, and user ID. This is not the first time that Facebook has leaked user privacy data. As early as September 2019, Facebook confirmed that its stored database of more than 400 million phone numbers associated with Facebook accounts was exposed. In December 2019, an online database containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, names, and phone numbers was made public, and it was also posted on hacker forums. In April 2021, Facebook’s server was also attacked. The personal data of 533 million users was leaked. The user’s account name, location, birthday, and email address were all exposed, involving 106 countries and regions. In the past few months, the same incident happened again. Where do Facebook users go? How can users re-establish trust in centralized social platforms?
At present, most centralized social platforms in the market have the same serious problems as Facebook, and users’ private data are constantly being leaked and traded. The traditional centralized platform gradually loses the trust of users, and decentralization must become the goal of the people.
ComingChat and the birth of CID digital identity
Against this background, ComingChat came into being! First of all, ComingChat itself is a privacy social platform. The first principle is to respect users’ social privacy. Users can register and use without using any personal information. Communication information and asset transaction information are protected by encryption (large groups of more than 1,000 people are not Support encryption), users do not need to worry about the leakage of personal information. Secondly, all activities related to ComingChat can be realized by the decentralized digital identity CID. Even if the platform suffers from any major internal or external problems, users always retain personal data autonomy in the platform. Our user Comer enjoys freedom and equality in the social interaction of ComingChat.
CID detailed introduction
CID (Coming ID) is ComingChat’s global and decentralized digital identity. Users can download and register ComingChat to get a 6–12 digit random CID number, no endorsement and verification by other institutions, and no personal information of the user. It can be obtained only after man-machine verification. Realize the decentralization of digital identity in the true sense.
In traditional centralized social platforms, registering an account not only requires the user’s mobile phone number and ID number to be verified, but some even require facial recognition to pass. The user’s privacy is compulsorily obtained by the platform and has an unobstructed view in the background. How the platform uses massive user data to profit users has no idea. When faced with a serious downtime problem such as Facebook, hackers take the opportunity to invade the user’s private information. There is nowhere to hide.
ComingChat’s CID uses asymmetric encryption technology, private key + public key, which perfectly solves the centralization problem of user registration. The 12 words randomly generated after the user’s man-machine verification during registration are the private key, and the CID obtained after registration is the public key. After the private key is saved, this account will always belong to the user who registered it, and the platform cannot and has no right to restrict or close this account. The communication information and asset transaction information in this account are all based on end-to-end encryption and a message server. Each message is encrypted on the end with a rolling replacement key and sent to the target user through the message server as a transit station.
In addition, all user activities on the platform are completed based on their own CID, such as adding friends, creating group chats, asset/NFT transactions, and future games, information, shopping, etc. access to third-party platforms only need to go through CID Connected. Therefore, CID is the identity certificate to the Web3.0 world, and ComingChat is the gateway to the Web3.0 world!
Based on the above content, ComingChat’s CID has three characteristics:
1. Users have the autonomy of personal data
The distributed storage of blockchain technology prevents user identity data from being controlled by a centralized authority. Each user’s identity is controlled by its owner. Individuals can manage their own identity independently, without relying on the platform.
2. The right to privacy of social information
The registered account lacks the verification of the user’s personal mobile phone number, ID card and other information, and the user’s social activity data is no longer easily obtained and monitored by the platform, and it also avoids the use of big data for centralized platforms to conduct business activities such as killing familiarity.
3. Convenience of social activities
When Metaverse social matures or the real world of Web3.0 comes, ComingChat users only need CID as a decentralized identity to access and participate in all applications in the new Internet social networking. No longer like in the traditional Internet ecology, users of different social platforms need to register for different account information, and each platform and account are separated from each other, resulting in users having more than several social accounts, such complicated information and repeated establishment of the same The new account also disgusted users. Simple and convenient Internet social interaction is also pursued in the Web3.0 era.
How does ComingChat ensure its social privacy?
Everything is based on blockchain technology. ComingChat not only uses technology to break the operation mode of the traditional centralized social platform, but also brings ordinary users into the blockchain industry, bringing blockchain technology to the general public while increasing the area. The playability of blockchain technology has greatly reduced the barriers to entry for the blockchain industry. So, what technologies does ComingChat apply to ensure “social privacy”?
1. Distributed storage + double ratchet encryption algorithm
Different from traditional communication software, it is based on blockchain distributed data storage, through the double ratchet encryption algorithm, to help users achieve end-to-end privacy encryption, at the same time based on cross-chain gateway technology to achieve and block link track, support multiple types of digital currency transactions Paid.
2. Key encryption for rolling replacement
The privacy communication section is mainly based on end-to-end encryption and message server. Each message is encrypted on the end with a rolling replacement key and sent to the target user through the message server as a transit station.
3. Asymmetric encryption technology
The main feature of ComingChat is that it is native to the blockchain. After binding the corresponding address or attribute, the same CID can be used in different platforms and applications, and the private key plus public key method makes the digital identity have strong privacy attributes And tradable attributes.
In summary, the next stage of the development of the Internet must start from the user and then return to the user itself. In addition to technological innovation and the strengthening of people’s awareness of privacy, Web3.0 is bound to bring about a trend of decentralization, and ComingChat’s CID The application only waits for the testimony of time.
To give a most familiar example, the current hot meta-universe concept attempts to create a surreal virtual space. People use virtual identities to experience everything that can and cannot be experienced in real life on the Internet, without leaving home for office, shopping, and shopping. A series of social activities, such as watching movies, traveling, and traveling in space, can be completed in the virtual space. What ComingChat has to do is to be able to use CID, a digital identity, to achieve all this. When the decentralized social platform completely replaces the traditional social platform, the world of the meta universe will come.
