Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts

Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by logifail on Sunday December 31, 2023 @09:46AM (#38824377)

> Passports are really the primary identity layer of Earth.

Umm, I'm not they're not that great as a primary identity either.

One edge case is that you can have have more than one valid passport for the one nationality. Another is of course that one can have more than one nationality.

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by api on Sunday December 31, 2023 @09:49AM (#38824400)

I have a Google, Apple, Microsoft, and GitHub OIDC account among others. That's a feature not a bug.

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by paganel on Sunday December 31, 2023 @11:09AM (#38825003)

Also, passports become useless once your government actively turns against you, see the current fate of adult Ukrainian men still residing in Ukraine.

The same thing risks happening with this government-approved online identity, I mean, how will the EU bureaucrats “handle” people like me that are openly against the West’s take in Ukraine? Will we get our accounts banned from posting pro-Russia content online?

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by logifail on Sunday December 31, 2023 @11:30AM (#38825190)

> The same thing risks happening with this government-approved online identity [..]

Don't forget the Covid QR codes.

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