Re:Estonia blocks electronic ID cards over identity-theft risk
by vertex-four on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:25AM
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Right, but point is, you can quite easily have Mobile-ID and your ID card, and if something happens to your ID card you can still use Mobile-ID. I think.
If there's no redundancy measure for the ID card system failing - for example, automatically extending deadlines - that's a problem, and an easily solvable one at that, since it's mostly policy. It's not something against the ID card system.
Re:Estonia blocks electronic ID cards over identity-theft risk
by dullgiulio on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:30AM
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And again, what the parent says in untrue. You can sign documents with your phone and still take part of the expiring public tender he describes.
Re:Estonia blocks electronic ID cards over identity-theft risk
by dekrg on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:43AM
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Yes, but you need to already have Mobile-ID for that. To get a Mobile-ID you need ID-Card with valid certs.
So if a person doesn't already have Mobile-ID and their ID-Card certs are blocked they can't get a Mobile-ID and thus they can't access any digital government services.
It's not like this is purely theoretical - large number of Estonian Id-Card will have their certs blocked and not everyone has Mobile-ID.
Re:Estonia blocks electronic ID cards over identity-theft risk
by bragh on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:36PM
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1. Mobile-ID requires a pretty good cellphone connection to work properly and avoid getting timeouts.
2. Mobile-ID requires you to pay for signing up and after that, 1€/month to your mobile provider.
As one example most government procurements over a certain amount od money happen as e-procurements with strict time limits that can't be changed and bids need to be digitally signed. If you can't access digital government services you can neither access e-procurment site nor digitally sign you bid.