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> The government issues an eID to your wallet

I'll stop you right here. I don't want to be forced to use a government issued ID — one the administration can revoke at a whim, one that will certainly be backdoored by intelligence agencies including the ones they haven't told you yet — just so I can talk to my friends online.

It's insanity that we are asking the state to regulate personal identity — and trust them with it - in 2026 on hacker news.



Don't you have a SIM card?


Most non phone computers do not have a SIM. And some countries allow to buy a SIM without identification.




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