Caller ID is notoriously unauthenticated. It’s getting better but I can still set my caller ID to be anything I want on my softphone.

Yeah I guess I just meant in theory.

Not an American, so honest question here: Is this a valid target for civil forfeiture since it’s proceeds from crime?

You know, instead of the usual $300 cops usually find suspicious in someone’s wallet.

Is that better… or worse?

I used to have a boss like that, he’d toss in an ellipsis at the most inappropriate locations.

It made all his emails appear sarcastic. Leave it to a guy who focused primarily on decorum instead of substance to send an email like

“Good job…”

and not know how that reads.

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.

The technology has existed since the 80s.

X509 certificates would allow a government agency to sign a digital identity indicating that it’s legitimate, would allow for remote revocation in the event of loss or theft, and can be easily integrated with every existing computer and browser.

An issued physical card would resemble a credit card, with a chip in it. Other physical form factors can take the shape of USB-devices which bundle the card and the reader into a single device.

We need to stop using the word ‘accident’. Accident my hole, he wanted to see if he could get away with it. So far he has.

Seek out new life and new civilizations, and introduce deadly biological pathogens to their ecosystems!

$40.50 to sit on the couch sounds about right for new years.

It’s nice that you’re so ready to delegate to my natural authority, but unnecessary.

I’m sick of stuff that should be ~2 paragraphs of text being a video. I do not want to watch a person or hear a narrator, I interpret written information much more effectively, and being text I can retain significant portions of the document as necessary.

Attention electron developers: under no circumstances do I want your entire app in .config.