Yeah, sounds right.

I know… But from square to cubic

It’s not the ID. It’s the implementation. I do like the Belgian implementation… It’s been nearly 10 years now and it seems to be pretty secure and trustworthy.

And to add to that. You were 16. Give yourself a break. It took me to get the age of 38 to start pursuing a job that I was genuinely good at and liked to do.

Just call her. Shell understand.

The west, the east, the north, the south… Wherever you build your reactor it will overshoot its estimated budget and wil be overshadowed by renewables.

But yes, there are many variables and the answer always lies in differentiating.

Woosh. Yeah, it keeps feeling counterintuïtive to go from mili to centi

Hydro energy to the rescue.

Of course. Renewable blows nuclear out of orbit when it comes to price. Nuclear plants take decades to build and are generally a lot more expensive than estimated.

Wait. Shouldn’t it be 1g = 1 ml = 1x1x1 mm cube of water?

Time travel or nuclear fusion. Either one would be awesome.

Not really. I was scammed for a few hundreds of euro’s last year. I knew the company, I knew the account but the bank was incapable of reacting because of ‘reasons’. They know where the money went but they can’t follow where it got transferred to. So they can only follow one transaction and after that it’s gone. (Except when you get a court order)

A regular transfer takes at least some hours/days. With digital currency the transfer is instant.

Apart from that, surveillance. There’s a (de)centralized register that shows how much money there is ti be found on any account at any given time.

PipePipe works fine when logged out.

Ah, you can see clearly who gets which data with every authentication. It’s logged and I can look it up on my portal.

Actually’', apart from ItsMe, I can see every time someone did any lookup on my online data with the federal government for the last 10 years. I even get to see their names.

There’s no third party watching with ItsMe because the traffic is encrypted. The data is owned by the Federal government and the party that requests authentication gets to see what the are legally allowed to see and what you clear. With every authentication you get to see what info they request.

Not really. I signed several contracts using ItsMe. That only works if my identity can be proven. No regular 2FA will be able to do that.

I don’t think it is because there’s only one authority, one identity provider, and that’s the federal government. All authentications pass through them. Enthe Auth or any other application will never be able to prove your identity without making an online call to the federal servers.

I can’t find the blog post that I was referring to but this might help:

From their own site: https://www.itsme-id.com/en-NL/why-itsme/security

ISO cert: https://www.itsme-id.com/en-BE/business/blog/iso27001

It’s good to point out that the system was developed by a consortium of banks to simplify identity verification en prevent fraud. Banks are held to ‘‘Know Your Customer’’. KYC entails that they need to check your identity every now and then and up until ItsMe that meant that you had to verify with your eID and a card reader. Those card readers have issues. Outdated firmware and whatnot make the proces a terible experience. I have several government websites that I use from day to day and the all need my eID for authentication.

Some figures. Nearly 1.700.000 authentications every day for 11.700.000 Belgians. 80% Of the Belgians use the app.

It’s used for official authentication. The certificates are handled by the federal government. That’s only possible with a call to the federal governments servers.

Any eID or other card wil have outdated data on it at some point. Like, when you move or, when you die.

That’s exactly how it works with the Belgian system.

Same for reductionis at the local swimming pool. They can only check if I’m a local but don’t get to see my adress.