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This is one of the obvious consequences of not having a national identity number assigned to everyone at birth, which exist in most developed countries, except for anglosphere, for some reason.
Its not as if it even helps since the numbers can be leaked and stolen and then abused & the situation ends up even worse since it is so centralised.
The App Store as the only way to install apps is the worst part about iOS and why I'll never use it again. I'm always helping friends with piracy and I have to tell them they can't conveniently use a native app because it isn't listed on the App Store. And then there's the removal of ICE apps. It's too much control. On iOS, if the government banned Signal, Apple could enforce it. On GrapheneOS, you can use whatever a…
None of it would be a problem without the App store in its current form though.
This is one of the obvious consequences of not having a national identity number assigned to everyone at birth, which exist in most developed countries, except for anglosphere, for some reason.
I wish people were assigned a identity certificate with public and private key at birth.
Oh, the classic Tuttle Buttle name confusion! I always remember the movie Brazil when I have to interact with a stupid cybernetic apparatus like every big company, where simple programs are the brain and low-paid humans are the actuators.
Brazil is one of the scariest films I've ever seen.
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How so? The article is talking about a fictitious person that's listed by name only on a sanctions list despite the government knowing the person doesn't exist. There is no possibility of the real Sean Byrne presenting a government number that is a negative match against the list because the fake Sean Byrne has no known ID to match against. The essence of the entry is just "here's a name to avoid". The real Sean Byrn…
In this particular case, it would be harder to produce a fake signature from a non-existent person if the signatures in questions were digital and backed by a national identity number. The kind of that I'm submitting when signing documents at work.
This has been going on for a long time. In the early 2000s I knew someone with the relatively common name Ian Smith who was routinely held up in airports because someone else with that name was on a watch list. I think in the end he managed to get some kind of stamp in his passport that officially said "not that Ian Smith", and it seems mad this isn't easier to resolve these days.
It looks like it will be a good idea to name a baby after those databases are checked so that he/she is less likely have a problem in the future.
UUID names next? v7 so we get the age...
You can't seriously match people on first and last name and claim "fully matched". Think of how manny John Smiths there are? How can this be the company started by Wozniak and Jobs ...
Firstly you have the issue that many terrorists are going by a nom de guerre rather than their legal or birth name.
Then, of course, your terrorists will have common names. How many Mohammeds are you gonna list?
Lastly is transliteration. Your no-fly list is in Latin characters. But your terrorists have Arabic and Persian and Hindi and Cyrillic names. So what do you do. Transliteration is an inexact science, and there are often many branching methods of doing it.
So no-fly lists are based on fuzzy matching common pseudonyms. It's a farce, really it is.
One option might be for the real Sean Byrne to move to the address in Sligo of the fictitious one, then ask to be removed from the Entity List on the grounds that he is a real person. I think that wouldn't work, and could be life-changing in a bad way, but it's an idea.