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niptoday at 12:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Agree on Smart-ID but the answer is to fix those flaws, not to replace the entire approach with one that depends on Google Play Integrity verdicts that even the German architects admit they can’t fully trust.

SIM-based solutions on their way out is a non-issue. For eSIM to support that use case, political will only is needed: the EU got Apple to abandon the lightning cable, this is not any different.


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Avamandertoday at 12:39 PM

> Agree on Smart-ID but the answer is to fix those flaws

Fundamentally can't be, it'd be a whole new solution.

> For eSIM to support that use case, political will only is needed: the EU got Apple to abandon the lightning cable, this is not any different.

Mandate every phone vendor to EAL4(+) certify their eSIMs? I'd love to see that, but I'm not sure that's a viable approach to take.