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PGP is already that answer. We just need a common trusted CA. It would be nice if the government did this and issued certs with your driver license or ID. We could replace our reliance on SSNs with actually good cryptography.
Trust the government to link security certs with your ID? No thank you
We have that already in Belgium. It’s been a while. It’s used to authenticate for government services or sign stuff. Why the hate?
trusting the government with certs to access data they're providing you == good
trusting the government not to listen to every email and website you ever visit and then not use that data to lock up dissidents. == bad
The same could be said about all central certificate authorities… In the end trust is always contextual I guess.
My government keeps trying to pass laws that they need backdoors to every crypto to protect my safety, and also certain states are using Facebook chats to lock people up for abortion.
Sad but unrelated to more reasonable governments providing certificates to their citizens. My comment only applies to citizens of reasonable governments.
The reasonability of ones government is a treasured thing.
But do keep in mind, data collected is forever but the amount of reason that a government uses can change over time.
US States having access to abortion data would have be an absolute non-worry since the internet was invented, just starting a few years ago, it gets people put in jail.
It's better to keep government out of my private affairs :)
Better but unreasonable. What about taxes, administration, health… a functional government is the desired state imho. With some overseen transparency (thanks europe for that) I’m starting to think we’re getting there to some extent for our data lives here. Now apparently not where you’re from… but that would be the problem. Albeit not an easy one to fix.
Yeah we're a good coup away from Authoritarian Dictatorship, The solution for that seems to include armament, I'm not looking forward to it myself.
Yeah not shit that’s the absolute worse. Where are you from if you don’t mind me asking ? Either the world is turning to shit or I’m getting old and it’s showing because it all seems that it was « better before » when it comes to freedom.
I'm definitely not advocating for that. Just for "official business." Chatting with your friends or something, use matrix, signal, telegram, gpg, whatever you want. Signing documents or sending documents to your bank? That's when you need the government CA. Basically anytime you would normally use your ID to identify yourself.
You have clearly not met the ineptitude British government.