Tough international law does not provide a clear definition of the term ‘terrorism’, there is a general consensus on this issue. According to this consensus, terrorism involves intimidating the civilian population while causing minimal damage to the enemy’s military capabilities, with the aim of maximising civilian casualties, particularly among vulnerable groups such as children, women, the elderly and the wounded.

Such actions were seen on 11 September 2001, when Islamic terrorists hijacked four passenger planes and flew them into New York and Washington, in what is currently recognised as the largest terrorist attack in human history.

Yes, clearly those heinous attacks on civilians are worthy of being compared to 9/11. Not Russia's deliberate attacks on Ukrainian cities though, they are totally fine. This propaganda trash has nothing in common with actual reporting. Get it out of the news community.

Please don't jump to conclusions. A well implemented eID can even improve privacy compared to the alternative of accessing big parts of the internet by trusting private companies to handle sensitive information like photos of physical IDs.

There is something in cryptography called Zero Knowledge Proof. With it only minimal information is exchanged and no party can tell anything about the person accessing it, i.e. the website who you are or profiling your ID, nor the verifier or issuer what you're doing.

Without knowing how the eID will be implemented, you can't just make such blanket statements. Want to know the details? It is open source and you can look up any technical details as well as the software code publicly.

swiyu - the Swiss Trust Infrastructure ecosystem

Organization for all public repositories of the swiyu Public Beta Trust Infrastructure - swiyu - the Swiss Trust Infrastructure ecosystem

^GitHub

accepeted

Our eID app (eDoklady) stores the data as passkeys, so you can easily selfhost something like Bitwarden if you want the digital representation of your ID stored with you.

And when it comes to verification on the website, it goes like this with ZKProofs:

if verification_app.status().is_ok() {
 continue
}

the group that organized the referendum against the first version is actually supporting this one:

digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/…

Digitale Gesellschaft sagt Ja zum neuen E-ID-Gesetz - Digitale Gesellschaft

^{Digitale Gesellschaft}

I have pretty severe amnesia, so I don’t know who I was too well. I know I was kinda obsessed with strength. I did lots of martial arts, got into fights all the time, I was super competitive, and I was generally aggressive and mean. Afterword, I can best describe it as losing my inner fire. I hate to sound egotistical, but now I’m about as nice as I possibly could be and kinda detest the behavior that used to define me.

A good example was that I used to be known amongst my friends for being kinda mean. I would regularly get violent with them and would berate and mock them at every opportunity. After I hit my head, I couldn’t possibly bring myself to do that anymore. Within a few months of my recovery, I lost all my friends because it made them uncomfortable. I forgave everything immediately and was practically infinitely patient and understanding. I haven’t hurt anyone since.

My interests also changed entirely. I stopped sports and martial arts and joined theatre and became interested in art and human expression. I was previously pretty self absorbed focussed almost entirely on self-improvement and I’ve since become endlessly curious about other people in just about every way.

From the article, I particularly identify with the sudden onset of inhibition. I went from straight to pan and I’m now notoriously easy. I’ve done every drug I can get my hands on and if I’m offered something, I do it without hesitation. I’ve had to work through a few addictions as a result. Even still, I generally just don’t fear any consequences of my actions if things can only go poorly for me. I’m actually irresistibly drawn to things that make me nervous or afraid now too.

There’s lot more to it too, but I think this kinda makes the point. To me, the person I was died that day. I’m now a different person who started life at 16. The things I no longer have and childhood I lack sometimes makes me feel broken and less than a whole person, but I’m kinda used it. There’s nothing I can do about it now.

It's kind of a given that people are going to try to get patents for stupid things they obviously shouldn't. It's the whole job of the patent office to decline such requests. If people only ever applied for good and reasonable patents, then approval could be automatic. It's not, only because they need to filter out the bad ones.

The real problem here is that the patent was granted. It seems dumb to apply for it. But how dumb is it, if applications like this actually get approved?