Chris Garrett Chris Garrett


33/M/UK

I'm Chris Garrett, a founder and creative technologist working at the intersection of design and engineering.

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I help startups and established brands develop new digital products through my studio, Hyperlaunch, which specialises in early-stage product development and rapid prototyping.

Authn as proof of life

This comment on Hacker News is super interesting: using WebAuthn to authenticate page loads with biometrics (TouchID or FaceID) to ensure the request is from a real person. Does the future of the web require biometric proof of life? It’s a brilliant idea — very low friction but totally bot-proof (for now). In a world where licensing content exclusively to certain LLM vendors potentially surpasses advertising as the business model, it’s entirely conceivable that content-rich websites will resort to guaranteeing that they’re engaging with a real person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41689701