EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen • Hacker News Board

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by chitowneats » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:18 PM UTC

ChemSpider wrote: post #9

Technical issues aside, the EU Green pass is a gigantic success. Super easy travel across Europe and all other participating countries.

"Super easy travel" is not how I would describe an application designed to ease the limiting of movement of people based on medical status.

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by wait_a_minute » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:19 PM UTC

ChemSpider wrote: post #9

Technical issues aside, the EU Green pass is a gigantic success. Super easy travel across Europe and all other participating countries.

When are the participating countries going to get rid of it? When is the pandemic over?

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by radicalbyte » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:20 PM UTC

I am part of the team working on the EU-DCC, and am very active in the community (we're a proper open source project).

I cannot comment on this myself, but it looks like my health ministry has:

https://nos.nl/liveblog/2403253-ook-in-duitsland-stijgt-aant...

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by ushakov » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:23 PM UTC

ChemSpider wrote: post #9

Technical issues aside, the EU Green pass is a gigantic success. Super easy travel across Europe and all other participating countries.

Not when your certificate starts to expire every 6 months like in Israel

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by EamonnMR » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:23 PM UTC

Oof, non-english gdpr popup. Not sure which option I'm supposed to select.

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by ho_schi » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:25 PM UTC

ChemSpider wrote: post #9

Technical issues aside, the EU Green pass is a gigantic success. Super easy travel across Europe and all other participating countries.

It is a success for the European Union. Not for the Europeans! I'm vaccinated and prefer to be around vaccinated people. Because of health? Yes. But also because of the mindset of people. But why is it not a success for Europeans? We had super easy travel before Covid - no borders - free settlement, travel and work. You've just carry your ID with you.

Regarding the stolen keys? I'm afraid similar things will happen again and again. At least the apps in Germany feel to work okay, also autonomous and offline. But relying blindly more on digitization (technology) will make things prone to errors. How many days since a BIG IT company failed hard?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-somehow-got-their-root... (english)

Six! Okay. But it is only Microsoft? The others won't fail? Did you said Facebook? How many days since Facebook accidentally removed itself entirely from the internet? We don't need more digitization - we need a lot better computing and not more of it.

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by enzino » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:29 PM UTC

let's index millions of people's personal and health data, including their exposure to dna-altering drugs that might have health repercussions for years afterwards... and secure them so well than some kid can create and sign a record for a mister adolf Hitler. what can go wrong?

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by NoPie » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:32 PM UTC

ChemSpider wrote: post #9

Technical issues aside, the EU Green pass is a gigantic success. Super easy travel across Europe and all other participating countries.

It is a tragedy as it has legitimised total control. In Latvia you cannot enter the shop without showing the certificate and passport. The control is even worse than during Soviet times.

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by gpderetta » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:32 PM UTC

EamonnMR wrote: post #15

Oof, non-english gdpr popup. Not sure which option I'm supposed to select.

I'm italian and still had trouble. Anyway, I think the right options are Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.

Re: EU Green Pass-generation keys stolen

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Post by Uberphallus » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:34 PM UTC

chitowneats wrote: post #11

ChemSpider wrote: post #9

Technical issues aside, the EU Green pass is a gigantic success. Super easy travel across Europe and all other participating countries.

"Super easy travel" is not how I would describe an application designed to ease the limiting of movement of people based on medical status.

Obviously it's super easy compared with the restrictions before.

Pre-green pass I basically carried a thick folder as I crossed multiple countries, each with different restrictions and translation requirements.