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Many not-religious-extremists are against it too. Given the abysmal security record of the federal government, putting all the things in one database instead of
by Karunamon 10y ago
Many not-religious-extremists are against it too. Given the abysmal security record of the federal government, putting all the things in one database instead of having it distributed among 50 just makes it a bigger target.
That, and knowing the federal government, such a system would cost a ton, be an overwrought mess of spaghetti code created by some Enterprise Software(c) firm, barely work, and most importantly, be rolled out primarily to benefit the government, rather than the citizens paying for it.
No thanks.
- icebraining 10y agoHaving a smartcard and having a single database are two completely orthogonal issues. In my country, we have the former without the latter - in fact, we still have different IDs for different services¹. The smartcard serves as a single authentication device, much like you can have a single SSH key for many servers. ¹ Using a single ID for each person is forbidden by our constitution, in the article regarding the usage of IT.
- Karunamon 10y agoFair enough, but that still doesn't obviate the cost and competence concerns. Knowing the state of fed IT, it would probably wind up being a 5-year-old RSA dongle variant that uses RC4 or some such.