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Good luck to you. I am not convinced people would be more likely to give money or a job to someone when they have only seen an avatar, but what do I know.


They don't have to know it's an avatar. For most jobs if they make any decision based on how the candidate looks they are in the wrong.

It's not any different from make-up, really, which is also hiding your real face, in a different way.


If you deceive someone by wearing a different face during an interview, I expect that you would not be hired. How do you prove you were the person interviewed?


There are plenty of ways to prove that, including stating a public key during the interview, interviewer signs it with their key, vice versa is done with the interviewer's key, and then the same is demonstrated in person with the same keys.

Hell, how to do that can even be an interview question.


That's a terrible answer to the hypothetical interview question because your solution only works if the person that took the interview is not colluding with the person that wants the job. The interviewee could just email their private key to the job seeker.

The key signing only protects against some very uncommon threats




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