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It works for the requirements of the people who are running it, not necessarily those who use it. The differentiator is that when an incompetent jurisdiction g
by LeifCarrotson 5y ago
It works for the requirements of the people who are running it, not necessarily those who use it.
The differentiator is that when an incompetent jurisdiction gives away your ID, it's your loss, not theirs. When hackers spoof a business with your credentials to perform industrial espionage or plant ransomware, it's the business that loses, not you. An incompetent jurisdiction can continue operation indefinitely, they just have unhappy, powerless citizens. An incompetent business will suffer financial losses and fail.
- Spooky23 5y agoIt’s more nuanced than that. The village clerk in some Indian reservation in South Dakota probably doesn’t have a process that looks like the NYC department of Health for vital records. But people live for a long time, and errors and omissions do too. The point is, you can establish identity, but it’s a pain in the ass. I need to provide a drivers license to open a savings account, but anyone with my SSN can open a credit card.
- RaptorJ 5y agoAny day now Equifax is going down. The real difference is that humans have some institutional power over political jurisdictions and how they are run and exactly none over how (large enough) businesses are.