Insufficient security at a national level has been frontpage of hnews all this week from various countries: Turkey, USA, Malaysia, Mexico, &amp;c.<p>From this and many other leaks and breaches from companies, governments &amp; institutions one could deduce security is imperfect &amp; digitally massively so.<p>Identity theft is rampant; Biometrics are irrevocable - yet the solution is used by most people everyday.<p>Cryptography solves both the problem of identity and privacy simultaneously.<p>It is establishable as persona via chains of trust, e.g. PGP signing.<p>Apart from societal control there seems no good reason not to adopt a system whereby everyone is issued a private and public key - which signs every email, bank instruction, comminucation &amp; vote.<p>Akin to good practice being to store only password hashes so <i>only</i> the individual posses the secret.<p>Ones identity would be ones own responsibility and huge leaks like this would reveal nothing but a list of public keys obtainable by crawling the web.<p>One can imagine a dystopian future nation where individuals must fight to protect their basic fundamental rights from state level adverseries operating outside the law - punchline is the worst threat is their own government.<p>Ever since Gibson the best science fiction is set in the present.