[jbarham]

> I pushed for anonymous temporary age verification tokens generated through a government app.

Cute. Let's see the reviews for an existing Australian government auth app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.mygov.m...

And the kicker is that the above app doesn't even need to exist since myGov could just use industry standard TOTP two-factor auth like the dozens of other services I use.

Aussie politicians once again conforming to their lucky country stereotype:

"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."

[t0lo]

I'm not saying aus government online portals and services aren't top tier dog shit- but doing an age token through mygov is the best approach, hopefully with enough pressure to make it non shit.

The alternative is an acceleration of the negative cultural trends and atomisation we have now.

You don't get to cry about the negative effects of social media but also cry about censoring it/protecting an impressionable population from it at the same time.

[jiggawatts]

> I'm not saying aus government online portals and services aren't top tier dog shit- but doing an age token through mygov is the best approach, hopefully with enough pressure to make it non shit.

This is a pure fantasy that you seem to recognise on some level.

You know all of the government apps are "top tier shit". You experience this, yourself, first hand. It's not some statistic, or report.

This, this is what any form of mandatory ID verification will be: shit. Top tier shit made by the most expensive consultancies using the cheapest possible outsourced Indian labour.

Source: First-hand experience working in the IT departments of the very same people that made MyGov ID.