Synthetic Auth
A weekly newsletter that curates digital identity news and serves it with philosophical commentary. Expect a thoughtful roundup of real developments, sharp observations about the contradictions of digital selfhood, and enough skeptical humor to make our increasingly synthetic world both comprehensible and bearable. Subscribe for curated links with philosophical depth and without the breathless hype or existential despair.
Synthetic Auth Report - Issue # 002
Greetings! Baudrillard would have found this intriguing: 16 billion stolen passwords surface like digital detritus, deepfakes multiply with 3,000% increases, and corporations scramble to manage AI agents that outnumber humans 17 to 1. The simulation isn't coming—it's already here, complete with its own existential authentication crisis. This week's developments reveal a common thread: the collapse of binary certainty in identity verification, where what was once definitively real or fake now...
Synthetic Auth Report - Issue # 001
Greetings! AI agents are rewriting the rules of digital identity, and this week's developments prove we're past the point of no return. NIST selected a fifth post-quantum encryption algorithm (because apparently four wasn't enough), while new protocols emerged to govern how AI agents interact with our systems. The question is no longer whether artificial entities deserve authentic identities, but whether we can tell the difference anymore. IDENTITY CRISIS The posthuman future arrives not with...