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I, and a lot of people I know, microwave their German ID cards immediately upon receiving them. Bad enough that German citizens are required by law to have a v
by Hendrikto 5y ago
I, and a lot of people I know, microwave their German ID cards immediately upon receiving them.
Bad enough that German citizens are required by law to have a valid ID card in the first place (see Ausweispflicht). Something pretty unique and a relic from the third Reich. We don‘t need more data on them. It will be leaked, it will be misused, it will have exploitable mistakes. ID cards should stay a dumb piece of plastic.
- gumby 5y agoI wouldn’t bother to do that myself, though it’s harmless since there’s essentially no infrastructure support for the chip in DE, which is my complaint. The chip only contains the info readable on the card plus what you want to store there (public keys, basically) and can’t be read remotely. I agree with you that mandatory ID cards are an affront to human rights, but you are sadly wrong to consider it unique to Germany. Quite the contrary: apart from commonwealth countries and the USA they required by all other OECD countries and many others besides (e.g. India, China, Malaysia, Russia…) Their origin predates the nazi era too. For example passport system was introduced on a “temporary” basis during WWI but rather than revoking it several countries used it as the foundation of their ID system.