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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026DROP requires stronger authentication than any other US government system I've ever interacted with. I file my tax returns with fewer authentication steps. I renew my car's DMV registration with fewer authentication steps. *I became a US citizen* with fewer authentication steps. 38/ 1133
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026It's either a system with no coherent threat model, or (far more probably), its threat model is *people will use it*. This is California's answer to "a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'": en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hit... 39/en.wikiquote.orgThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikiquote 1173
