The National Digital Identity initiative is a security nightmare
AUGUST 28 — The Cabinet green-lit a Trojan Horse earlier this week. I'm not sure who suggested the National Digital ID but it is an absolutely terrible idea.Why do we need a separate digital ID when we already have the national registration department? We have the MyKad system so why do we need yet another login, supposedly to supersede all other logins?
Seeing how quickly the issue of telco records being compromised and sold on the Dark Web was buried and not addressed effectively by the departments in charge, how can we be sure of the safety of this platform?Never mind the design of the average government website, that looks as though it was designed by a child discovering Microsoft Paint.
Every other week, a major Internet service will announce some sort of security breach. What assurances can there be that Malaysia can ensure proper online security if even some of the biggest names can't? If someone's national digital ID was compromised, identity theft is a serious state of affairs. Think how much potential damage that could be wrought by placing an individual's digital affairs under one single umbrella.
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