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The government issuing everyone a smart ID that lets them attest anonymously to being of legal age would be better. But there are age gate laws today, and call
by eli 9mo ago
The government issuing everyone a smart ID that lets them attest anonymously to being of legal age would be better.
But there are age gate laws today, and calls to pass more of them. A hypothetical better way in the future shouldn’t excuse legally mandating a poor implementation today.
- fc417fc802 9mo agoWe could distribute scratch off cards to stores within a few months. It's incredibly low tech. I can't speak to elsewhere in the world but most (possibly all?) US states run lotteries. If a given government body can't manage to stand up a web API to validate one time use codes within a few months then they clearly don't have the technical knowhow to manage smart IDs in a secure manner. My point being that this either doesn't qualify as hypothetical, or if it does, then it indicates gross incompetence to an extent that precludes more complex solutions as a matter of course.
- eli 9mo agoA proposed solution that does not actually exist and is not proven to work is necessarily a hypothetical one. I'm not ruling out various state governments also being incompetent though.
- vlad-roundabout 9mo agoRight, only for Andretard and iPhonys, ensuring the monopoly will be there to stay.