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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by frickinLasers on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:20PM (#18094615)
I'm not particularly informed on arguments for and against this, but shouldn't a national ID require some modicum of trust in the national government? In their ability to keep the database safe from bad actors, including Executives that fancy themselves dictators?

A national ID sounds like a terrible idea for this country right now.

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by AnimalMuppet on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:01PM (#18096092)
The US doesn't have a national ID at least partly because of a revulsion toward the USSR "papers, please" restrictions on movement. The "lack of trust" in the national government has very little to do with database security.
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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by jniedrauer on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:30PM (#18095213)
We already have one. It's called social security and it's a procedurally generated 9 digit number that is vulnerable to series prediction among other things, and essentially can't be (or almost never is) regenerated if it's compromised.

It's a very poor system that was never designed for its current use. We have many of the downsides of a poorly implemented national ID and very few of the upsides. We need an actual purpose built national ID.

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