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Articles and documents associated with designing and implementing identity technology using self-sovereign identity principles
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Sovereign Source Authority and Moxie Marlinspike #6

Open JazzMalar opened 6 years ago

JazzMalar commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I just noticed you credit the blog post 'Sovereign Source Authority' to Moxie Marlinspike but the pseudonym 'The Moxy Tongue' belongs in fact to Devon Loffreto.

sheldrake commented 4 years ago

Indeed. Here's how I explained it in a 2017 report ... :-)

Allen misattributes one of the first references to self-sovereign identity (the actual term then used was sovereign source authority) to developer Moxie Marlinspike rather than to the owner of The Moxy Tongue pseudonym, Devon Loffreto. Given that Loffreto had previously argued in favour of pseudonyms that cannot be connected easily by commercial social graphs such as Facebook’s (Loffreto, 2011), I cannot determine if Allen misattributed accidentally or ironically.