All that is already a reality in many 3rd world countries and even is European ones like Turkey. By all that, I mean all that!
Turkey had a scandal with TurkTrust cert authority(a company owned by the Turkish military fund) where they issued a root cert by mistake(?) and a government body was caught by Google when pretending to be Google.
At the same time, Turkey has a robust online services. Signing documents, medical stuff - everything happens digitally and signed securely and Turkish citizens very rarely need to go to physical government locations and almost never need to deal with physical paperwork . There's even government controlled mail service that you can use to do official communications and if something goes sought the courts can check the communications from your government provided, cert signed inbox.
The problem with the new stuff that EU and UK are trying to do is, to remove the "being caught by Google" part by legally whenever they feel fit.
mrtksn|2 years ago
Turkey had a scandal with TurkTrust cert authority(a company owned by the Turkish military fund) where they issued a root cert by mistake(?) and a government body was caught by Google when pretending to be Google.
At the same time, Turkey has a robust online services. Signing documents, medical stuff - everything happens digitally and signed securely and Turkish citizens very rarely need to go to physical government locations and almost never need to deal with physical paperwork . There's even government controlled mail service that you can use to do official communications and if something goes sought the courts can check the communications from your government provided, cert signed inbox.
The problem with the new stuff that EU and UK are trying to do is, to remove the "being caught by Google" part by legally whenever they feel fit.
Jacobinians|2 years ago
jruohonen|2 years ago
You might misunderstand the competency of some citizens here. Does DigiNotar ring a bell?