A couple of weeks ago I had a friend over who used my WLAN to eID for some service (i think it was pre-paid CC? Neither of us can't remember at this point) over his android phone using some "AusweisApp2".
He ended up in a video chat with a lady who asked him to show his face/ID and swivel the ID in the light so she could see the reflections of the security features.
I was sitting next to that whole process thinking about how difficult it would be to put on a convincing facemask and create a matching fake ID that would pass a video inspection.
Shouldn't be that difficult, most certainly less difficult than trying to convince a postman in person by showing them a fake ID at an address matching the fake ID.
Rather, it's just very difficult compared to faking an SSN number on the internet.
The address in this case would be difficult since a lot of institutions pull your address from the local registry, so you can't convince them to not sent stuff to any victims address unless you manage to change their address in the registry too.
Ah, that’s the system you use when you don’t have any of the new eIDs, but one of the old ones.
That should be phased out by 2021
Or use the eID functionality, which is growing now that the old IDs are starting to expire.