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supern0vayesterday at 6:47 PM1 replyview on HN

>Unfortunately that is the same vector that scammers use to drain people's bank accounts

Is the solution really that no one can use a computer without special permission and inspection of government issued identification? If we wouldn't tolerate this with our desktop/laptop OS, why is it suddenly okay for our mobile computing platforms?

If Microsoft required this to run software in Windows, there would be riots.


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kube-systemyesterday at 6:54 PM

> Is the solution really that no one can use a computer without special permission and inspection of government issued identification?

No, that is neither the only solution nor is it the one proposed here by Google.