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Free Software Foundation announces a Librephone initiative to develop a fully free and open source smartphone (liliputing.com)

submitted 2 days ago by tal@olio.cafe to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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[–] foliumcreations@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I know some people on the internet is against the whole idea behind digital identification. But if its only used for things that would normally require identification in the physical world. Like banks and government interactions. I don't have anything against it per say. It can even be administered and handed out by a company (although that is against my personal ideology) but they have to then be forced to either release the source code or support at least one distro of Linux, or flatpack works too. Let's not get in to snap packages, it opens a whole other can of worms.

[–] Saperlipopette@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Exactly.

Through Handelsbanken I have two physical card readers.

One is wireless and I can use to authenticate online purchases and login to Handelsbanken. That one works on any browser so it works no problem on Linux. It even has a camera on the back of it to scan QR codes.
The second one connects through USB and requires you to download a program that only works on Windows and MacOS. This is the one that is required for all government services, other banks and everything else.

My hope was that I would be able to use the first physical card reader to scan the QR codes that come up for mobile bankID for other sites, but the QR code scanning functionality only works with Handelsbanken's website.

If I could login to everything with the wireless card reader then they wouldn't even need to make a version that specifically works for Linux, just a version that works for all browsers. It doesn't seem like it would need to be that big of a change from perspective.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

We have that but it's just a website we go to login to. And every 3 or 6 months forget which it asks for your drivers license. So we can login to governmment sites on any platform since it is another website used for verification.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah we have that in BC Canada, your digital ID gives you access to BC services and as a login credential partner to federal tax account.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't it just a webiste though?

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you mean the federal tax access, yes. However their security has increased after breaches so to login you need username, and a pass code they mail to you to setup a login and password. Then they send you a printable cyptic gridded square. So you login with a user name and password , they send a challenge code and you cross reference it on your chart to send back the codes to get access. If your paper is expired or you lose your password you have to through snail mail again. OR you use your BCID key tied to your personal device, website waits for code generated from phone. It simplifies access, and ensures only the person holding the device can login and not a brute force from a random person