It is nice the article mentions Spain. Here you can just give the OK via web signing with a personal certificate issued by the government. But we have a Nationa

It is nice the article mentions Spain. Here you can just give the OK via web signing with a personal certificate issued by the government. But we have a National Identity Document (direct translation from Spanish: Documento Nacional de Identidad) with a nice chip where we can store the certificate [1]. Cons: we must carry it any where we go and show it to the police on request. I believe in USA that would be unimaginable because... you know... government control. BTW, thanks god Firefox supports client certificates and I sign from Linux. 1: http://www.dnielectronico.es/oficina_prensa/imagenes/modelo_dnie_g.jpg http://www.dnielectronico.es/oficina_prensa/imagenes/modelo_...