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The Baltic states have had proper digital authentication for years. Priv/pub key pair on the Xth iteration digital identity card that is checked against your pa

The Baltic states have had proper digital authentication for years. Priv/pub key pair on the Xth iteration digital identity card that is checked against your passport physically. The problem isn't that governments don't have proper digital authentication. It's that most countries want to reinvent it every time. The German version is a clusterfuck that they then had to force into existence by mandating it by law and yet normal citizen services can't be done with it.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>The German version is a clusterfuck ... These gigantic government IT projects are also a good way to funnel taxpayer money to the right pockets, that's why they're always behind schedule and over budget (just like all government physical infrastructure projects) and if you look closely it's always the same 2-3 companies getting all the contracts.
- rorykoehler 5y ago
  In Singapore they have world class public IT infrastructure and they do it all in house.
- anoncake 5y ago
  Bullshit. The German electronic ID card wasn't a huge project and it was developed in-house. By all accounts, it works pretty well if you actually have the opportunity to use it. The problem is that nobody supports it. In part because of federalism: You rarely interact with the federal bureaucracy directly and the states for some reason aren't interested in supporting it.
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