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__coaxialcabal | 4 years ago

What was the vendor selection process for ID.me? Their UX, privacy, and security practices seem terrible. What’s the real story on how ID.me became so pervasive in the public sector with such a terrible product?

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Terretta|4 years ago

Gov cyber security, financial services cyber security, and anyone else who puts on their home page how they “take your security seriously”, all want to buy from ex mil execs. Must be to manage all that military grade encryption between your browser and their web site.

__coaxialcabal|4 years ago

ID.me does not have a monopoly on former military in the IDV space. Understand that lots of former military have clearance, relationships, etc., but does not explain the success of such a low quality solution being this ubiquitous in government at both the state and local level.

strong2024|4 years ago

They are FedRAMP moderate, which follows NIST SP 800-53, so it can't be that bad?