On: Building a better gov.uk, step by step

[pertymcpert]

Except when you need to log in. Email doesn't work, have to remember a government gateway ID that everyone forgets because they use it once a year.

[londons_explore → pertymcpert]

Now that all UK passport holders have NFC passports, they should just say 'touch your passport to the back of your phone to log in'.

The passports support challenge-response auth, allowing gov.uk to securely identify the passport in a way a device cannot spoof, and the Web NFC API is implemented quite widely now.

[groundCode → pertymcpert]

To be fair, government gateway isn’t actually developed or maintained by GDS (the organisation responsible for GOV.UK)

[crottypeter → pertymcpert]

Psst...put it in your password manager.