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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 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.