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This is great (I'm from Sweden which already has this), but you need to be careful as this also makes it really easy for you to fall into scams. I'm at this mom

This is great (I'm from Sweden which already has this), but you need to be careful as this also makes it really easy for you to fall into scams. I'm at this moment fighting a company who required me to login with BankID when using their website's contact form, and as soon as I was done with my inquiry they tried to blackmail me by saying "nope, when you logged with BankID, you technically signed (extremely unfair contract that says I need to pay them obscene amounts of money for simply reaching out to them) and we will sue you if you don't pay" Fortunately I'm fine in this case as the law states that you cannot be tricked into signing a contract that was never presented to you, but I think most people don't make the connection that your BankID logins are considered legit signatures by law and that you can be held accountable for what you use it for.

tmikaeld 4y ago
While BankID is nice, it's owned and operated by a private entity and not controlled by the government, which the government want to change [0]. [0] https://feber.se/samhalle/regeringen-vill-ha-en-statlig-e-legitimation/439420/ https://feber.se/samhalle/regeringen-vill-ha-en-statlig-e-le...
- dijit 4y ago
  ^ this It's a fantastic system, especially when I compare how it used to work when I lived in the UK with how it works in Sweden: it feels like the UK is 50 years in the past. It should be government owned, definitely, but Sweden has a very poor history of securing it's IT systems in government. Like.. very poor. So, maybe I'm not 100% on-board. There needs to be oversight for sure. https://www.holmsecurity.com/resources/the-1177-leak https://www.holmsecurity.com/resources/the-1177-leak https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/sweden-leaks-top-secret-military-civilian-databases-in-massive-outsourcing-blunder https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/sweden-leaks...

tmikaeld 4y ago

While BankID is nice, it's owned and operated by a private entity and not controlled by the government, which the government want to change [0]. [0] https://feber.se/samhalle/regeringen-vill-ha-en-statlig-e-legitimation/439420/ https://feber.se/samhalle/regeringen-vill-ha-en-statlig-e-le...

dijit 4y ago
^ this It's a fantastic system, especially when I compare how it used to work when I lived in the UK with how it works in Sweden: it feels like the UK is 50 years in the past. It should be government owned, definitely, but Sweden has a very poor history of securing it's IT systems in government. Like.. very poor. So, maybe I'm not 100% on-board. There needs to be oversight for sure. https://www.holmsecurity.com/resources/the-1177-leak https://www.holmsecurity.com/resources/the-1177-leak https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/sweden-leaks-top-secret-military-civilian-databases-in-massive-outsourcing-blunder https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/sweden-leaks...