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sam_lowry_today at 4:00 PM1 replyview on HN

For one, they had a a major f-up with eIDs in 2017: https://ria.ee/en/news/estonia-resolves-its-id-card-crisis

And they are just good at marketing. Belgium had eIDs earlier never messed up so much as Estonians.


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Muromectoday at 6:14 PM

Yeah, but it was the vendor who fucked up, not them. One can argue that using long-term certificates is bad practice in itself, but that's arguable.