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Estonia Is Enhancing the Security of Its Digital Identities (medium.com)
Estonia is upgrading the security of ID cards and digital IDs used by citizens, residents and e-residents. A new certificates update has been developed based on advanced elliptic-curve cryptography, which is more secure and faster than the SSL certificates previously used. From a report: This certificate update will protect users from a potential security vulnerability that the Estonian government announced last month had been identified by a group of security researchers. It has now been confirmed that the vulnerability is contained in software that had previously been installed on the embedded chip used in ID cards around the world, including those issued by Estonia between 16 October 2014 and 25 October 2017. Although the problem is international, minimising the risk and developing a solution has been a top priority for Estonia since the government was informed. However, there has still been no reported incidents of any Estonian digital ID or ID card being misused in the way described by the researchers. Considerable resources and expertise would be required for this so the risk for most people affected has always been low.
Because getting ID in the USA is hard.
That's absurd. It's actually easier than just about any other dealing you will have with the government. Moreover any even marginally productive member of society would already have ID. Your statement is false and fatuous.
If you don't drive, are poor and can't get credit what piece of ID would you have?
What you are probably unaware of is that states also issue ID. It looks just like a drivers license in California other than it says "Identification" instead of "Drivers License". It's easier to get as it doesn't require a test like a drivers license would.
There are many parts of the USA that are essentially third world. Voter ID laws mean that people from these places won't be able to vote so their areas can then be further ignored.
The parts of the US most like a third world are the immigrant heavy portions where all the signs are in a foreign language. They get catered to by us translating all government documents into the language of their choice.
Lets be adults for a moment. Would you agree that there is a minimum level of participation required to be a citizen? Unless you say no and have no standards then I think we can agree that getting ID is part of that minimum. If someone cannot be bothered to even have ID I have no issue calling that person unqualified to vote. The fact that on average a higher percentage of certain minorities lack ID says more about those groups than anything else. There is no racism stopping them from getting ID, "the man" isn't keeping them from getting ID, only they are keeping themselves from getting ID. If they want to vote, it's a small price to pay.