By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026Next, you must verify your *email address*, by receiving an email with a unique code in it and keying or pasting *that* into the webform, too. 35/ 190
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026Again, remember how this process started: with you logging in with Login.gov, *using your email address*, which the system has *already* treated as verified since the very start of this (very) long and (very) complicated process. 36/ 1111
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026This whole thing is *terrible*, and it is predicated on the absurd premise that Californians have to be defended from the threat of strangers who pretend to be them *in order to sneakily opt them out of surveillance*. 37/ 1111
