Russia is indeed the main threat in our neck of the woods. And with the regimes they tend to run, lack of easily accessible digital registry is not something t

Russia is indeed the main threat in our neck of the woods. And with the regimes they tend to run, lack of easily accessible digital registry is not something that will save you from falling down the stairs and accidentally landing on couple of bullets with the back of your head. More importantly, we already have these registries! There's already a digital identity verification service in place that, according to our law, is sufficient to identify a person to the same degree an ID card / passport would in person. It's there, I've used it as an end-user, I've set up integrations with it for my clients. The issue is that if I want to identify myself to a German institution for whatever reason, the only way I know of involves burning a whole lot of dead dinosaur juice to get to Berlin, standing in an orderly queue for a while, and presenting my passport in person. And probably filling out couple forms along the way somewhere.