> If I have access to your digital ID I shouldn't be able to impersonate you anymore than I should be able to fly using your passport.
> If I have access to your digital ID I shouldn't be able to impersonate you anymore than I should be able to fly using your passport. If you steal my passport and I' don't signal it to the authority, you'll be able to sell it on the black market to someone looking approximately like me who will subsequently be able to use it to impersonate me (it actually happened to a cousin of mine). Why do you require digital ids to have a higher security standard than an actual passport? (Some countries like the US mandate biometry in passports, but you could add that to your credit card as well, there's no technical limitation here even though it's probably too expensive for too little benefits) Some people may be able to fraud by stealing and reselling digital ids, but it's not a fatal issue if it's not a fatal issue for a passport. Again, the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero.
Posted by stymaar on Jun 29, 2026, 9:11 PM
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Yeah, the plan is far too expensive for what it provides.
NewCrashed demand after one of the big AI labs (probably Anthropic because they focus way too hard on expensive frontier models) become inso...
New/dev/random is much too expensive for this.
Yeah, this always bugged me.
A year ago, I had the opinion that it'd be too expensive for developers to support offline mode, peer to peer, or community servers after...
The weird thing about this product is that its biggest competitor is "an old ipad." I feel like most of their target customer base alread...
There's a talk from Travis Kalanick recently on a podcast about this.
>nobody ever bought German cars for their low prices, except the Beetle Huh?
> If I have access to your digital ID I shouldn't be able to impersonate you anymore than I should be able to fly using your passport.
> If I have access to your digital ID I shouldn't be able to impersonate you anymore than I should be able to fly using your passport. If you steal my passport and I' don't signal it to the authority, you'll be able to sell it on the black market to someone looking approximately like me who will subsequently be able to use it to impersonate me (it actually happened to a cousin of mine). Why do you require digital ids to have a higher security standard than an actual passport? (Some countries like the US mandate biometry in passports, but you could add that to your credit card as well, there's no technical limitation here even though it's probably too expensive for too little benefits) Some people may be able to fraud by stealing and reselling digital ids, but it's not a fatal issue if it's not a fatal issue for a passport. Again, the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero.
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