Re:MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over a...
by throwmitid1234 on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:34PM
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This is mostly a case of them not really reporting it, MitID is down quite frequently (now once a month ish, but in the first few years every week or so), or at least partially down . They now finally have their own status page, previously you had to get your status from a provider when they noticed that logins began to fail ;)
They're very light on reporting issues, in this case Signaturgruppen a subsidiary of NETS, didn't even mark this as a full outage.
Re:MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over a...
by halffullbrain on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:56AM
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As someone who was part of developing the “start your business”-registration system in DK, I’m pleased to hear that!
(It really is pretty complex, but a lot of effort went into making it both user friendly and reliable)
From a technical and user point of view, MitID have had less outages than Cloudflare, AWS and MS Azure in the last year. While I agree with the single point of failure, I also like that I setup my startup with all government and banking online via a login I had the last decade, painless and faster than most places without having to upload a single document in many a unsecured ways I heard from my US and Other European friends (outside the Nordic countries).
Yes we Danes trust our institutions more than others and trust is given by default and then lost, rather then "earned" (I would argue bought) in other places.