Deep down, I think it's something that requires cooperating with real world entities (governments, banks, basically real world trust), not something that tech bros seem to want to do for ideological reasons
We have already seen cases of SIM swapping attacks. I don’t want to see this to be more widespread.
Of course I'm not talking about just relying on SIM. Maybe we can stop with the knee-jerk reaction and actually think of how to add better ways to do it. Government IDs could enter as some piece of the puzzle, trusted contacts, yeah, even SIM... At the very least out here in the real world I have some recourse if my ID is stolen, and I don't have to worry about having to buy all my stuff back because I lost my keys.
As I understand it, Keybase actually has a very interesting concept of spreading key materials over your social media. So it's not even unprecedented.
surely you're joking, mr. drowsspa