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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID (notthesolution.substack.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Also https://www.cac.mil/Common-Access-Card/, if the Americans are skeptical.

I don't like the Austrian one being phone-integrated, but I understand why people would want that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It's because the phone is a two-factor token that everyone has with them. With a secure processor being the hardware token and fingerprints or face scans biometrics. This makes it ideal for saving such sensitive data. I most frequently use it to digitally sign documents in a legally enforceable way.

The card you linked is similar, and a smart card was one of the previous versions of our system. The goal here was to make it universally accessible, and a smartphone is perfect for that.