Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

plaguna wrote: post #4

First, we saw Russian hacking campaigns in Ukraine before the invasion of the country. [1][2] Are we seeing the same in Denmark/Greenland with the USA? [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2022/7335... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ukraine_cyberattacks

Tin foil is aisle ten friend.

Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

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Post by zenmac » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 11:21 AM UTC

Should have stuck with NemID a previous paper alternative or only offered MitID as a digital alternative. The rush to go all digital is coming back to bite them in the .....

Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

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Post by Gravityloss » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 11:21 AM UTC

Don't banks have their own id:s as well? At least in another nordic country, you have quite many login possibilities to many services. Banks even provide cross-login.

Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

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Post by VorpalWay » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 11:21 AM UTC

The Swedish BankID has the same potential weak point. Any centralised system does.

The way TLS on the Web works is better: as long as the CA is up some time during the period I need to renew it is fine. Digital IDs should really work that way (probably with relatively short life spans just like let's encrypt: the digital ID could need to be renewed once a week for example, and it would opportunisticly renew when less than half the time is left).

Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

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Post by bjarteaarmolund » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 11:22 AM UTC

Supposedly up again now

Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

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Post by jdmoreira » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 11:24 AM UTC

These things should be offline / resilient first right?

Smartcards / YubiKeys.

Never understood the logic for these to be centralised / online.