I'm at home right now and showed my dad the equifax one year free thing. He happily signed up to that. But was very suspicious of paulgb. Looking through his resume and GitHub, no indication or shadiness. My dad ended up being fine with it.
Also in fact congrats on having multiple popular Github repos! I'm jealous. This entire thing is a great idea. Good job.
Thanks :) I'm well aware that people would be suspicious of providing this data to a stranger, especially after their data was hacked. I've been on HN for over a decade so I hope that eases worries a bit. I just really hate arbitration clauses.
I also give an option to print and mail the message yourself, in which case the data never leaves your browser.
If only there were some safe third party we could trust with reputational information, so that people could look you up there and see whether you were trustworthy.
We could have it include things like where you've lived, whether you've been sued, foreclosed, bankrupted, delinquent on loans, etc.
Hmm, but we wouldn't want that information disclosed. What if instead they gave some sort of a reputational analysis? Maybe put that data through a hash function. But then how would we compare it? Better use an algorithm to digest it to a number.
It would have to be an extremely secure system, of course, you wouldn't want it to lose the data you gave it. Maybe if it was a semi-authoritative company devoted solely to that purpose, we could call it a reputation department, or no, maybe a credit bureau.
/s
(Parenthetically though it really does make me want someone to start one of these that operates in some open, verifiable fashion rather than "trust us lol")
Also in fact congrats on having multiple popular Github repos! I'm jealous. This entire thing is a great idea. Good job.