> they provide passports for travel, driving licences for driving, national insurance number for taxes, but its not a single id that everyone is required to have

I am not sure what point you are trying to make. The government controls your passport, your driving licence, your national insurance number for taxes, but because those are 3 different IDs, it doesn't count as "your government controls your ID"?

Feels like you're just nitpicking for the sake of it.

> there is no point in it being open source if i cannot modify and run it

Well I for sure hate the idea of remote attestation, I agree with you on that. I was just pointing out that saying "it's not possible to have remote attestation on an open source system" is wrong: it's possible, that's a big part of why "they" like remote attestation: because they have control even if you can tamper with your system.