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Comment by meibo

1 day ago

In multiple European countries, national ID numbers are public information that can be searched by name and address (i.e. Sweden)

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iknowstuff  1 day ago

I played with Estonia’s e-residency and they use asymmetric cryptography for everything so the ID is public but does nothing without the corresponding private key.

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