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I love me some ID.me and think every bank and financial institution should be required to use it. It goes so far beyond to do good multi-factor auth and even a

I love me some ID.me and think every bank and financial institution should be required to use it. It goes so far beyond to do good multi-factor auth and even accounts for the un-homed and un-phoned in their multifactor. Thousands of people can't bank or use many services because they can't get a phone number, but they can use id.me at a library or other public computer with few issues just having an old offline phone running an authenticator Edit: TIL login.gov is the new hotness

SpaceManNabs 2y ago
Is Id.me and login.gov the same thing?
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  ID.me is a for profit private provider of identity proofing services. Login.gov is provided by the US General Services Administration. All federal agencies are moving to Login.gov. IRS is one of the last digital services that will move. There were some congressional hearings on ID.me, due to distorting the truth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 ("HN: IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool (Feb 2022)") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691325 (a previous comment I wrote on the topic) https://cyberscoop.com/idme-irs-identity-verification-congress/ https://cyberscoop.com/idme-irs-identity-verification-congre... ("ID.me misled IRS on processing times for identity verification, congressional investigators found") https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-ceo-backtracks-on-claims-company-doesnt-use-powerful-facial-recognition-tech/ https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-ceo-backtracks-on-claims-compan... ("ID.me CEO backtracks on claims company doesn’t use powerful facial recognition tech") https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-aclu-oregon-states-messaging-facial-recognition/ https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-aclu-oregon-states-messaging-fa... ("Documents shed light on ID.me’s messaging to states about powerful facial recognition tech") https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/id-me-made-baseless-pandemic-fraud-claims-to-win-contracts-congress-says/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/id-me-made-basel... ("ID.me lied to IRS about unemployment fraud, average wait times, House Dems say")
imzadi 2y ago
I was neutral on id.me until I started getting unsolicited marketing emails through them. https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/202709194-Why-am-I-receiving-emails-from-ID-me https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/202709194-Why-am-I-rece...
FireBeyond 2y ago
id.me was steaming garbage the last time I used it. "Scan the front and back of your Driver's License." [upload scan of front of DL @ 200DPI] "Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded." [upload scan of front of DL @ 300DPI] "Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded." [upload scan of front of DL @ 72DPI] "Thank you, now please upload the back of your Driver's License." Hmm, 72DPI worked for the front, so... [upload scan of back of DL @ 72DPI] "Unable to read a barcode in the image you uploaded." [upload scan of back of DL @ 200DPI] "Unable to read a barcode in the image you uploaded." [upload scan of back of DL @ 300DPI] "Thank you for verifying your Driver's License". An unmitigated turd.

SpaceManNabs 2y ago

Is Id.me and login.gov the same thing?

toomuchtodo 2y ago
ID.me is a for profit private provider of identity proofing services. Login.gov is provided by the US General Services Administration. All federal agencies are moving to Login.gov. IRS is one of the last digital services that will move. There were some congressional hearings on ID.me, due to distorting the truth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 ("HN: IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool (Feb 2022)") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691325 (a previous comment I wrote on the topic) https://cyberscoop.com/idme-irs-identity-verification-congress/ https://cyberscoop.com/idme-irs-identity-verification-congre... ("ID.me misled IRS on processing times for identity verification, congressional investigators found") https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-ceo-backtracks-on-claims-company-doesnt-use-powerful-facial-recognition-tech/ https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-ceo-backtracks-on-claims-compan... ("ID.me CEO backtracks on claims company doesn’t use powerful facial recognition tech") https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-aclu-oregon-states-messaging-facial-recognition/ https://cyberscoop.com/id-me-aclu-oregon-states-messaging-fa... ("Documents shed light on ID.me’s messaging to states about powerful facial recognition tech") https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/id-me-made-baseless-pandemic-fraud-claims-to-win-contracts-congress-says/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/id-me-made-basel... ("ID.me lied to IRS about unemployment fraud, average wait times, House Dems say")

imzadi 2y ago

I was neutral on id.me until I started getting unsolicited marketing emails through them. https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/202709194-Why-am-I-receiving-emails-from-ID-me https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/202709194-Why-am-I-rece...

FireBeyond 2y ago

id.me was steaming garbage the last time I used it. "Scan the front and back of your Driver's License." [upload scan of front of DL @ 200DPI] "Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded." [upload scan of front of DL @ 300DPI] "Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded." [upload scan of front of DL @ 72DPI] "Thank you, now please upload the back of your Driver's License." Hmm, 72DPI worked for the front, so... [upload scan of back of DL @ 72DPI] "Unable to read a barcode in the image you uploaded." [upload scan of back of DL @ 200DPI] "Unable to read a barcode in the image you uploaded." [upload scan of back of DL @ 300DPI] "Thank you for verifying your Driver's License". An unmitigated turd.