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an exciting personal report from the world of "e-identification" (sweden)
in sweden, life revolves around the "mobile bankid". this is a service owned by major swedish banks that provides a smartphone app equivalent to a state id card, but which can be used to log into websites
for a long time, there's been a bit of a hole in this system: the banks check your government id when you first create your account, but after that, you can basically just use your existing bankid to create a new bankid (true for my bank at least), so long-term it's not so secure
but now we live in the glorious era of near-field communications. after recently being forced to wipe my phone, i had to set up bankid on it anew, and it seems they now require you to use your phone's nfc sensor to scan your passport or national id card. neat!
@hikari awful rather than neat
this type of "security" does not benefit citizens
@whitequark it's a mixed bag. it's an instrument of social exclusion; for the people included, though, it's sometimes more secure or more convenient
@hikari do you realize how callous you sound rn?
@whitequark @hikari that reminds me the hype in Russia around "now you can log in to sites with Gosuslugi", and "now you can get Gosuslugi with just your mobile phone number" a few years ago. And then Gosuslugi (digital government portal) started to send draft notices to people :D And it seems it's going to be used to force people to vote in the upcoming sham elections, too.
@whitequark yes. i don't want to be, but ventriloquising dril is the inevitable outcome of trying to synthesise technical appreciation with ideological revulsion without yielding to either. i'm sorry.
@whitequark in retrospect i should have simply not replied. i'm not functioning properly
@hikari yeah okay i get that