A third-party project audit reportedly claimed that Orb devices do not record users’ iris codes onto persistent memory and only transmit codes through end-to-end encrypted messaging.
Human identity project Worldcoin has obtained a third-party audit of its Orb software, according to a draft of a March 14 report from the development team seen by Cointelegraph. The audit was performed by Trail of Bits, which claimed to have found no vulnerabilities that “can be directly exploited in relation to the Project Goals as described,” the report stated. The full Trail of Bits report is expected to be published on March 14, according to an emailed statement from Worldcoin.
Worldcoin allows people to verify their humanity by registering with a phone number or email address or by having their iris scanned by an Orb device. When a user performs this registration, they obtain a “World ID” that can be used to prove they are an actual human. The project was co-founded by Sam Altman, who also co-founded ChatGPT developer OpenAI. Altman claimed that he helped to create Worldcoin out of fear that artificial intelligence (AI) bots may soon be able to pose as humans effectively.
Privacy advocates have criticized Worldcoin on the grounds that it risks leaking users’ iris scans to hackers or governments. These iris scans could potentially be used to reveal all of the activity a person performs with their World ID.
