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Yes. This is what you get when incompetent officials jump on any offered solution that promises to make their awful track record of "digitalization" projects lo
by simfoo 5y ago
Yes. This is what you get when incompetent officials jump on any offered solution that promises to make their awful track record of "digitalization" projects look better. Of course without listening to actual experts and instead looking for buzzwords.
- pantalaimon 5y agoExhibit B: Ubirch and their 5 Blockchains https://www.heise.de/news/Digitaler-Corona-Impfpass-IBM-Ubirch-und-fuenf-Blockchains-5076161.html https://www.heise.de/news/Digitaler-Corona-Impfpass-IBM-Ubir...
- thinkberg 5y agoAn issue with the reporting is that the ubirch standard solution is confused all the time with the actual project. Especially since it is mostly guessing, not knowledge of the actual technology behind it.
- tastroder 5y agoCan't really blame the reporting there imho. At the time that article was written they actively marketed towards the blockchain solution and the government side wasn't really forthcoming with public information. Luckily that changed a few days ago but this article in particular is from March 9th.
- dathinab 5y agoThe absurd thing is like CCC mentioned the german covid app (state payed, kinda decentralized, very privacy respecting contact tracing app) does not only potentially cover some of the cases (if people are close to each other and the phone can detect it using Bluetooth tokens) but also seem to be getting a feature "to handle meetings" in a privacy friendly way.