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This is not the first attempt to set something like this up in the EU (in fact, the directive is some 10 years old), and it won't be the last. In the end, it wi
by DocTomoe 4y ago
This is not the first attempt to set something like this up in the EU (in fact, the directive is some 10 years old), and it won't be the last. In the end, it will die like all the projects that come before it, because with 27 member states all having different structures, the complexity will kill it.
- happyweasel 4y agoI hope you're right on this
- snypox 4y agoThe EU digital covid certificate works quite nicely and I used it at multiple countries. This might be a bigger challange but still.
- fer 4y agoThe EU covid certificate is nothing more than a signed piece of data with a PKI behind, the complexities between that and the eWallet proposal are orders of magnitude away.
- londons_explore 4y agoIt will die because it's in Thales strong financial interests to have it die a slow death with many contract revisions and cost increases. Source:. I have been in meetings where defence contractors discuss how to corner the customer (the government) to force them to pay for more work. Up to 300x the original contract value over 7 revisions in one case!
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoAlso, Thales is basically a sweatshop in Eastern Europe. They'll charge the EU several times what the work is worth in Western European dev wages, then nearshore the actual work in their Eastern European offices. Similar to what IBM, Oracle and other consultancies and bodyshops are doing. I wish I was a Western European manager there. Make huge wages without doing much work other than churn out PowerPoint presentations to the tech illiterate C-suite and boss around some Eastern European juniors.
- mordae 4y agoIt won't die this time. They are utilizing the momentum and tech lessons from COVID passes. This is happening.
- mqus 4y agoIf only they would actually learn from it (e.g. make it open source). As it works now, no chance this will succeed. Speaking for Germany alone, this would be monumental.
- MonkeyClub 4y agoI'm of the same opinion, this is definitely happening, nobody's asked whether they want it, it's just the next necessary thing. In theory, it's bad for "democracy". But I'm more worried that social existence will necessitate a digital existence. I'm connected, therefore I exist? No way.