Earlier quoted context omitted.
My money is a boolean at this point. money_in_account=false;
Still better than half of uint32 possibilities.
Wanna take another stab at that? :)
Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but it's a privacy nightmare. I've gone the other way from Denmark to UK. And I've often had to mail copies of my passport or other identity documents via email. And my bank requires me to regular scan my face to check that it aligns with the picture in my passport.
It's the same in the US. We're really lucky that it's technically impossible for fraudsters to email pictures of stolen passports (or stolen pictures of passports) to banks and other companies for fraudulent purposes.
Weird, I'm in the USA and I've never emailed my picture or passport to a bank, or provided it in any other way. I suppose they might have a very old scan of my driver's license, certainly nothing newer than about 20 years. If they have any other photo of me it's without my knowledge.
Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
#163Terrifying to live in a digital economy when something like this happens. You're usually about 1 service away from realising that the "money you have" is just an int32, that, if everything works properly, you can modify. Otherwise you have nothing except a pretty little plastic card. (I'm aware that payments systems are not affected, but it's a sobering realisation that I've had a couple of times, but it works enough…
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Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
#164Terrifying to live in a digital economy when something like this happens. You're usually about 1 service away from realising that the "money you have" is just an int32, that, if everything works properly, you can modify. Otherwise you have nothing except a pretty little plastic card. (I'm aware that payments systems are not affected, but it's a sobering realisation that I've had a couple of times, but it works enough…
Was at a checkout the other day, forgot my wallet in my bag, thoughts went through my mind: tap to pay? (not setup), crypto? (need USD, tap to pay). Had bad internet in that one spot, faster to run outside to my car and get my wallet.
Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
#165I'm a British expat with a Danish job. I really dislike MitID and the Danish centralised world of (very good) public services that come with it. Each person has a number, CPR, which effectively defines your life solely to the state. Visit a library, doctor, tax man, anything official, and your ID is recorded. Buy alcohol online, go grocery shopping, use your bank card -- and sign in with it. This undoubtedly makes th…
What do you mean indirectly handing over your car for a phone contract?
Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
#166Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
#167Can anyone tell us the current status? I put "was down" in the title to be conservative, since usually these things get resolved after a few hours. I converted this to a Tell HN post since there didn't seem to be a good 3rd party article about it in English (yet, at least). The submitted link is in the toptext. (Submitted title was "MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting".) (p.s.…
Hi dang,
Thanks for the edit.
It is indeed up again, and I appreciate you recognizing that the thread had/have some great discussion aspects about e-ID in general.
It was completely down from 10:40 to 12:17 GMT+1
Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
#168I see a few people here complaining about the idea of a central digital identity service. As a Dane, having lived in other countries, MitID is an insanely superior to anything I've ever tried. It simplifies so many touchpoints with the government, and is honestly such a good upgrade going from nothing -> physical NemID card with codes -> digital MitID (literally "My ID"). The only real disruption I'd say is if you ha…
> The only real disruption I'd say is if you happen to be buying something online that triggers the 3DS prompt (an additional security layer to prevent cards getting stolen/scam). In Denmark the 3DS prompt for VISA at least uses MitID to verify you are the owner of the card, so that'll obviously not work when MitID is down.
If you use Lunar, the 3DS prompt uses the Lunar app and not MitID.
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Re: Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
#170Terrifying to live in a digital economy when something like this happens. You're usually about 1 service away from realising that the "money you have" is just an int32, that, if everything works properly, you can modify. Otherwise you have nothing except a pretty little plastic card. (I'm aware that payments systems are not affected, but it's a sobering realisation that I've had a couple of times, but it works enough…
> "money you have" is just an int32
Damn, that's terrifyingly eye opening. That's a really, really strong argument for physical cash (or gold maybe?)