Such things require either consensus or tyranny, the former of which is nigh-impossible to reach and the latter being not exactly ideal.
> Once spammers fear for their lives, they will stop.
They could just as likely just improve their methods...
Such things require either consensus or tyranny, the former of which is nigh-impossible to reach and the latter being not exactly ideal.
> Once spammers fear for their lives, they will stop.
They could just as likely just improve their methods...
Sadly certification for services is not easy and very bureaucratic but then at least you as a user can be sure that nothing unnecessary gets revealed to the service.
This is >10 year old technology, by the way.
Companies can abstract this away and be certified by each government, e.g. like Stripe. It's nothing special.
Not really, unless you think of PayPal and Stripe as the "centralized authorities" of credit card processing. It's still a system with multiple authorities/centers of power; you'd just be paying a third party for the convenience of integrating those multiple authorities into a single layer of abstraction. If you're worried about the aggregator somehow subverting or altering your requests, you can always cut them out of the transaction.
It is enough that I need to tell the German "Verfassungsschutz" all my social media networks, all my domains, all times that I was in a foreign country for an extended stay just because I work for an agency that does projects for governmental institutions. Not that it matters, as I had to do a similar strip tease when I started my university job as a student helping the professor.
Not that I have anything to hide, but I just don't see the government having a track record of safe systems. Or keeping adversarial actordout of such systems. Additionally these systems might only be an election gone south away from falling into untrustworthy hands with me not being able to delete the collected data.
I might currently be living in a relativ (pseudo-)democracy. But if history tought us anything, that is nothing to be forever certain about.
And it might be tech that is >10 old. But I believe you will be hard pressed to find a significant amount of people in Germany (especially in tech) that would want to use it. Maybe the fact that nearly nobody is using it tells a lot about if this is an idea worth pursuing.
If you don't want to use this system, you will also never be able to complain about the government not offering digital services and requiring you to physically stand in line. The nPA is the base for those services and can be used today (provided the government provides the service digitally).
I've seen many Indonesian scams which utilizing many Blogger/Blogspot websites (which are definitely ugly) and phone numbers. Even though the government enforced all cellular phone numbers to be registered under a valid ID, this still not actually stop them to scam more people.
One of these scam sites is https://berkahmy-pertamina.blogspot.com which was published this year (see RSS/Atom feed for details) to impersonate Pertamina (national gas/petrol company) to run classic lucky draw scams.
Let see how many SIM cards you can count in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi4BlFXAnvI (at 3:30 and 8:40). This is from an actual Indonesian TV show about police investigation and was taken before the regulation was passed by the government.