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Governments and bank branches should offer physical identification as a (potentially payed) service globally, and provide a digital signature that a person is owning a physical device (which should be valid until the device is reset or invalidated by the person).

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One the author here. Please read this https://www.biometricupdate.com/202205/sensity-alleges-biome...

I always imagined the USPS fulfilling this need.

I don't know how serious is USPS, but in my country the post office doesn't check if the signature looks the same for example.

Banks face and handle fraud on a much higher level, and have a much better training in identificacion.

My signatures never look the same. Signatures aren't a good judge of authenticity.

My point is that a bad actor would have to show up in person and lie to a federal entity. It's not that they won't get away with it- it's that they cannot hide on the other side of the globe.

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