[mattdesl]

having a cryptographic government-backed digital ID could really be a great and privacy-preserving feature of modern society. for example: ZK proofs are now practical, and could improve upon the status quo of sending a digital JPG of a scan of your passport to a third party for some arbitrary verification.

The post reads a little bit overblown.

[michaelt]

I'm not sure that would work all that well to be honest.

Seems to me, the whole reason ID cards have photos on is because they get lost/stolen/borrowed all the time.

Even if the government had the inclination to run a big national IT project so I could use zero knowledge proofs to verify my age for pornhub by scanning my driving license NFC chip, they'd still end up needing a webcam face check to make sure I wasn't some kid using dad's driving license. At which point the privacy angle becomes a joke anyway.

[ranger_danger]

Yes but having a fake card is an entirely different animal to deal with.

[anonym29]

I will never upload photographs of my government-issued photo ID for any reason. I will never utilize any gov-backed digital ID.

I will go down screaming, fighting, kicking, biting, and faxing my tax returns to the IRS, really doing everything lawful in my power to drag the whole system to a halt if digital ID gets forced on me. I don't care if I have to write a script that's going to trade bitcoin 800 times a second on 12 different exchanges, I don't care if I have to make my tax return 200,000 pages long and deliberately reorder the stack so that every single sheet is out of order, and it's all in a font that was deliberately chosen to be incompatible with OCR systems. If the US government will let me submit my tax returns in Farsi, Urdu, or Esperanto, or some other obscure language that the IRS would need to hire someone to translate, I will, just to add all of the absolute maximum pain, inefficiency, and suffering into this process.

Keep pushing this shit on people who don't want it. Malicious compliance is like reflected DDoS attacks with huge asymmetric I/O sizes: I alone can easily force the government to waste 10,000+ hours of effort for each hour I put in, and what's more, I can and will write tutorials, open source all of this, and advertise it everywhere if digital ID does get forced on society.

Problem with this? Stop pushing digital ID or start pushing to let me renounce my American citizenship without posessing another citizenship.

[mattdesl]

Digital ID that I’m describing would be a way to avoid the current awful status quo of uploading your passport online (which, in the UK, has become common for things like banking, immigration, and other services). I’m not sure what your issue is.

[anonym29]

My issue is caring about my constitutional (natural) rights (which cannot be granted by a government, as they are natural; they can only be infringed upon by government), but I wouldn't expect you to understand, being in a place where blind subservience to a literal monarchy is what defined the values of the society you live in.