Re: digital id

On 09.07.25 01:07, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2025-07-08, badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

On 07/08/2025 12:14, Chris in Makati wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 11:01:17 -0400, badgolferman
<REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
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Some states allow digital drivers licenses in Apple Wallet and even
TSA is accepting digital passports now too.  Has anyone here done
this?  What advantage have you found?  What could possibly go wrong
with this scenario?  It seems like a privacy nightmare in the
making.

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I'm not sure why it would be a privacy nightmare. I would think an ID
is more secure on a phone that it is in a paper format such as we
have now with driver's licenses and passports. It's the same with
credit cards. Apple Pay is more secure than a plastic card.
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For me, the more things that can be made digital and put on a phone
the better so that I don't need to carry so much around in a physical
wallet.

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There are lots more bad actors capable of stealing your digital and
online files than there are those who can steal your physical wallet.
If that stuff is accessible digitally online then it's already at a
higher risk, regardless of encryption level.  How often do you read or
see on the news that the most protected data has been breached by
privacy thieves from thousands of miles away?  How often do people get
their identities stolen from a random database?  At least my wallet is
in my direct possession and no one will get their hands on it unless
they have direct physical access to it, and that would only happen if
I'm mugged or careless.

 Apple Wallet data stored in iCloud is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple
cannot access it. You're also in full control of whether Wallet data is
synchronized to iCloud at all. Where's this "privacy nightmare"?

FACK: A lot of geriatric nonsense. E2E-encryption is the most secure way   to store data of any kind that exists.
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