My current favourite "blind spots" are municipal services and identification in the notary sense. Municipal services are still driven by lumbering bureaucracie

My current favourite "blind spots" are municipal services and identification in the notary sense. Municipal services are still driven by lumbering bureaucracies that worship paper forms and take weeks to make a decision on anything. This makes the process of interacting with them tedious, error prone, and daunting. Worse still is that it can take weeks for program approvals and to issue permits for repairs and renovations. The identification issue is that almost all of the above and for legal documents often the only "proof" of identity is a signature. We have much stronger guarantees available that are verifiable and terribly difficult to impersonate. When I bought my house there was a stack of papers to sign that relied on good faith that I wasn't forging the signature and representing myself faithfully... but they could never know that for sure. They were also happy with having me email them sensitive documents without any encryption or verification at all. Andy Rooney would be rolling in his grave [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6U4IF39kqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6U4IF39kqM