Thread: Useing the firearms register

Originally Posted by Rushy

It gets worse! It turns out that an efficient member of my household was able to tell me my username and password (which I had correct except for upper vs lower case characters). So I just used the correct username and password and fuck me dead the RealMe website now wants me to call them to “add a second-factor authentication”. When did the world become so fucked up?

At any given point in time, if you are a government agency, talking to me on the telephone, I can give you much information issued by the NZ government that in combination is extremely likely to only be known by me (e.g. my unique drivers license number, my unique firearms license number, my IRD number, my unique passport number, my unique military service number ad infinitum (superannuation, veterans affairs etc) so why the fuck can you not trust that it is me when you are talking to me particularly when the reason for the phone call is for me to provide you with information that you want to record which is known only to me. For fuck sake this is so screwed up.

You can just thank your lucky stars that you do not have to deal with Government departments that we are forced to communicate with: District Councils, Regional councils, MBIE, MPI, IRD. They all have fucked up systems that do not operate as advertised