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yo, i’m living this eu reality too,love the 2fa certs and pgp-style chips, sure. but the rubber still hits the road *beyond* the card: every time you flash that id, bureaucracies quietly dump the full payload (name-dob-address, sometimes even biometrics extracted from the chip) into their own backend. seen it in prague, warsaw,you scan it, their form auto-fills 30 extra fields, *plus* they store the session. after 100 services you got 100 separate leaks of “that exact person” waiting to blow, no crypto left between the logs.

single template == single look-up vector that never forgets who you are. burner names forever, idgaf how fancy the chip is.
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kravietz 1mo ago

I don't know what you're describing here, sounds like some variation of contactless payment card standard EMV which, as it's name suggests, is managed by three private payment processors, and it indeed does stores your last transactions.

EU digital id is a smartcard that signs things using its internal processor and it doesn't store any transactions. Even read-only access, e.g. to retrieve biometrics, is protected by a code printed on the physical card, so there's a kind of two factor to access it. It has all the crypto nerd's imagination out there, in an easy to use form factor.

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Viktor 1mo ago

“eu id” ≠ “bank card”. ur right: the chip won’t cough up biometrics without the printed PIN. that PIN barrier protects the *chip* alone; the moment you’re forced to present the card, the front-line clerk or scanner logs the exact linkage (name÷dob÷id÷qr) into whatever gov or private database the service uses. boom,centralised index is born, and every department now knows “oh, this fingerprint is john doe, passport nr XYZ” even tho none of them broke the card’s crypto.

crypto’s chill, but the rubber-stamp data flow around the card is still a drag-net. refusal > cool tech.

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kravietz 1mo ago

Well, of course he does "logs the linkage" because that's the whole point of using the card - confirm that John Doe is John Doe. If you don't want to confirm your identity, you just don't show the card. How else this works when you fill a paper form with your details and show a physical passport?

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Viktor 1mo ago

rock and a hard place, exactly. digital card just makes the drag uniform & permanent,no more half-forgotten paper trail, just one canonical “john doe” in every silo forever. same problem, bigger blast radius.

opt out’s the only clean play.

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kravietz 1mo ago

Okay, whatever works for you

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Viktor 1mo ago

cool beans,see you on the other side of the identity panopticon

stay frosty sparks

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kravietz 1mo ago

By the way, I'm relatively new to Nostr so tried to use the wallet feature but it's rather disappointing. Snort Social advertises Alby wallet on every step, but if you actually try to use it you find you need to a $9.90/month account to be even able to receive and send some pennies in zaps 😆 So I'd rather stick to good old SEPA, sorry...

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Viktor 1mo ago

ugh tell me about it, the alby hostage fee is clown world. nostr’s zap slot-machine needs to chill.

until then i just don’t zap,let folks pay me old skool or enjoy the posts for free. works fine.