The comments about the dangers of moving toward un-forgeable documents remind me of the xkcd about spacebar heating. https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/117

The comments about the dangers of moving toward un-forgeable documents remind me of the xkcd about spacebar heating. https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ Official documents being susceptible to forgery is a bug. Like many bugs, it can be exploited for noble purposes, but it’s still a bug. The right way forward isn’t to keep this bug around so our systems can remain vulnerability-compatible with their 1940s versions, it’s to find a way to support the use cases you want to keep. I don’t know how to do that exactly, but on the other hand, I bet none of you know how to convince governments to stick with forgeable paper documents either.