Comment by noir_lord
3 days ago
I have a sliding scale of devices I trust more or less (I trust nothing completely).
At the top of the trust scale is a self built desktop running fedora then way further down is my apple devices (iPads) and then even further down is my android phone.
Open source on hardware you control is the least worst option but since the hardware comes from abroad/countries I don’t trust much (including the US) not perfect.
Soon thanks to Digital ID all your important business will have to go through the devices you trust the least.
There's nothing about a digital ID system that would inherently require the use of a pre-approved OS.
Some countries went with SmartCards that you can use on any platform that can communicate with a card reader basically.
Hah, you wish. See how maintainers of a reference implementation resist removing Google dependency here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-app-andro...
Probably but I’ll just end up with a separate device just for that.
This is in no way a solution to the population-scale problem of a belligerant nation having root on the citizenry's mobile phones/cameras/GPS units/network scanners