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AnthonyMouseyesterday at 9:27 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Your ID is already controlled by your government, and we don't call that dystopian control.

The expression "papers, please", a classic exemplar of dystopian control, is referring to what?

> First, it can be open source and have DRM and attestation. Android is open source, for instance.

When people say "open source" in this context they mean that the user or third parties can make changes to the system, not that the source code is thrown over the wall from time to time. The situation with Android is exactly the thing that we don't want.