Instead of government-in-exile, we can now have roaming governments, with no physical land, but with laws and services operating within a framework. It is government without a country and it puts everyone on equal footing when trading and building a reputation. Do we even need nation states any more? Perhaps we will see the first virtual governments soon, existing solely as an interface to facilitate identification,…
I have always thought that we'll have some internet courts of arbitration that would cut through the red tape of dealing with many jurisdictions. But can we have sovereign states that exist only in the internet? I doubt - maybe there will be some ingenious crypto systems that would make the systems more and more independent form the physical servers (in a way like the bitcoin system) - but eventually still the physic…
To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data
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Re: To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please see: http://www.id.ee/index.php?id=30470 Here's the technical architecture doc: http://open-eid.github.io/ We all have either a credit-card sized chip card with our keys or a similar mobile SIM card which uses SIM applications. Using those we can do basically everything online, be it authentication to private or public services (using PIN1), or digital signatures (using PIN2). This is also available to anyone…
Is there much concern in Estonia about the potential privacy leaks? We also now have digital ID cards here in Portugal, but its use is for now fairly limited - you can use them to log in to some governmental sites (like the IRS), but no banks or other sites have adopted them. I read on Wikipedia that some of your newspapers have started requiring it to comment on their articles, and I'd be wary of such developments,…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card#Uses_for_ident...
Apparently it is not used anymore?
Web commentary columns of some Estonian newspapers, most notably Eesti Päevaleht, used to support ID-card based authentication for comments. This approach caused some controversy in the internet community.[3]
Re: To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data
#13Instead of government-in-exile, we can now have roaming governments, with no physical land, but with laws and services operating within a framework. It is government without a country and it puts everyone on equal footing when trading and building a reputation. Do we even need nation states any more? Perhaps we will see the first virtual governments soon, existing solely as an interface to facilitate identification,…
This sort of happens with shipping, corporate and domain registries. One day Tuvalu will sink, but its domain is too valuable to abandon and will continue. Hardly anyone can point to Liberia on a map, but over 10% of the worlds shipping is registered there^. The CEO of HSBC is paid through a Swiss bank account belonging to a Panamanian nominee company.
Facilitating non-identification, unaccountability, lopsided arbitration schemes, and evasive business is big money.
^"There" is of course an office in London, not actual Liberia.
Re: To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data
#14"We will start issuing the cards by the end of 2014." - well, they're late. Also, why can't we use an Estonian embassy anywhere in the world?
Probably because the embassies are not yet equipped to issue them yet.
Here's how you apply: https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/apply-2/
Re: To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there much concern in Estonia about the potential privacy leaks? We also now have digital ID cards here in Portugal, but its use is for now fairly limited - you can use them to log in to some governmental sites (like the IRS), but no banks or other sites have adopted them. I read on Wikipedia that some of your newspapers have started requiring it to comment on their articles, and I'd be wary of such developments,…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card#Uses_for_ident... Apparently it is not used anymore? Web commentary columns of some Estonian newspapers, most notably Eesti Päevaleht, used to support ID-card based authentication for comments. This approach caused some controversy in the internet community.[3]
People are too lazy to use ID cards for something like commenting. More importantly though, most Estonian comments are anonymous with people attacking each other or politicians or whoever they like. Nobody wants to comment using their real identity.
Re: To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please see: http://www.id.ee/index.php?id=30470 Here's the technical architecture doc: http://open-eid.github.io/ We all have either a credit-card sized chip card with our keys or a similar mobile SIM card which uses SIM applications. Using those we can do basically everything online, be it authentication to private or public services (using PIN1), or digital signatures (using PIN2). This is also available to anyone…
Is there much concern in Estonia about the potential privacy leaks? We also now have digital ID cards here in Portugal, but its use is for now fairly limited - you can use them to log in to some governmental sites (like the IRS), but no banks or other sites have adopted them. I read on Wikipedia that some of your newspapers have started requiring it to comment on their articles, and I'd be wary of such developments,…
No concerns about the privacy. The rewards outweigh the risks. Why be afraid, on the Internet everybody anyway knows you're a dog.
Re: To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data
#17Instead of government-in-exile, we can now have roaming governments, with no physical land, but with laws and services operating within a framework. It is government without a country and it puts everyone on equal footing when trading and building a reputation. Do we even need nation states any more? Perhaps we will see the first virtual governments soon, existing solely as an interface to facilitate identification,…
Estonia itself tries to do that for anyone in the world: https://e-estonia.com/taavi-kotka-promises-10-million-e-esto...
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#18"We will start issuing the cards by the end of 2014." - well, they're late. Also, why can't we use an Estonian embassy anywhere in the world?
First cards were issued in December. The first e-residents were Edward Lucas from The Economist and Steve Jürvetson and Tim Draper from DFJ http://news.err.ee/v/politics/874266b1-53ce-49ad-b1da-6ff9e9...
Re: To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have always thought that we'll have some internet courts of arbitration that would cut through the red tape of dealing with many jurisdictions. But can we have sovereign states that exist only in the internet? I doubt - maybe there will be some ingenious crypto systems that would make the systems more and more independent form the physical servers (in a way like the bitcoin system) - but eventually still the physic…
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtland_%28micronation%29 http://wirtland.com/
The crucial question here is if the virtual state can do anything that would be in conflict with the state that has jurisdiction over its servers.
I think that with some advanced cryptography this can work to some extent (with servers behind tor and distributed in a manner that there is no one god-admin) - but in the end http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/on-the-high-seas-of-the-h...