on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog
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The 1993 New Yorker cartoon that named the internet's founding identity condition: online, nobody can tell who or what you are.
Peter Steiner's two dogs at a computer became the most-reproduced summary of online anonymity ever drawn. Thirty years of identity engineering - PKI, MFA, KYC, verified badges - is one long argument with that caption, and the dog is still winning more often than the industry admits.