It should be legally required to provide enough interoperation capabilities for a compatible frontend to be written for an Apple II by whoever would like to do that, as the government can't be expected to write and maintain clients for every platform that's now in existence or that will be created in future.

If only currently popular platforms are to be supported, how could a new platform join them in the future if the use of existing ones is mandated by governments?

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Avamander 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> If only currently popular platforms are to be supported, how could a new platform join them in the future if the use of existing ones is mandated by governments?

The viable solution for that is to provide a trusted hardware implementation that can be used with any computing platform that has a documented interface. It can't be a software-only implementation, basically.

	▲	vslira 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Glad you mentioned this possibility Countries have centuries of experience providing attestation services through notaries. Germany is even infamous for requiring them for things that would sound ridiculous even in Brazil (both movie and country) I can’t see why governments couldn’t incorporate this existing infrastructure into the digital world. Make them sell hardware ID wallets, enforce the real identity owner to be present to invalidate a previous ID or whatever, and add legal restrictions for the government not be able to alter these registries