Comment by retired
16 hours ago
Already happening. The official German identification app, AusweisApp, is designed exclusively for Android and Apple mobile devices
16 hours ago
Already happening. The official German identification app, AusweisApp, is designed exclusively for Android and Apple mobile devices
> designed exclusively for Android and Apple mobile devices
That's very different from requiring hardware attestation, though.
It is a little different. But not very different.
No, you can also get it for Windows and Huawei devices. So three American and one Chinese companies. Great.
With Salt Typhoon, that's a whole four ways to choose how China steals your data.
And to think, people said consumer choice was dead...
If it was developed by the government, shouldn't the source or an API be available? Surely third-party apps can be made in that case?
That'd be great but governments often don't make specs and source code available. Governments don't make things open.
The amount of stuff councils and state governments gatekeep about road specs alone... Argh.