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"Hi Chrissy, can you touch your ID to the phone so I can know that it is you" call ended

The government just should give you a card sized mini computer with 2 large primes stored in it, and everyone is perfectly fine. In fact, more secure, than the current situation?



Two large Prime minicomputers sounds pretty heavy for people to carry around with them all day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Computer#/media/File:Pri...


"My ID got stolen with my phone..."

It'd be better to ask something personal. "What did we do to Christmas/Birthday/[other event] last year? Who was with us?"


In the US where stealing a SSN is enough to impersonate someone I doubt the government would provide anything to mitigate these


And telephone numbers can be spoofed for voice or text in the US. Not sure when the problem will get big enough that signed comms become normal. I guess imessage probably is? But only between users of apple devices.




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