“Tough to forge” digital driver’s license is easy to forge(arstechnica.com)
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“Tough to forge” digital driver’s license is easy to forge
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/05/digital-drivers-license-used-by-4m-australians-is-a-snap-to-forge/
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This is basically a client stored proof of id card, the police and NSW govt retail offices verify identity with a separate system. The ServiceNSW app also has a system for the public to verify a digital license ("Check a license or credential" on the opening screen) with a QR code that can't be forged.
Going to the pub with a fake ID for an after school schooey is a right of passage in Australia, this is probably just a sneaky way of getting school kids into coding. It's not useful for anything else, anyone that needs to will verify a license properly.
Going to the pub with a fake ID for an after school schooey is a right of passage in Australia, this is probably just a sneaky way of getting school kids into coding. It's not useful for anything else, anyone that needs to will verify a license properly.
In any case it’s pretty ridiculous to require people to have a smartphone and not allow physical ID cards as an alternative.
Some bars and clubs require you to use the app to scan a QR code for entry if you use a digital license. Other places you can use screenshot of your twin's drivers license because you forgot it and didn't have it set up.
NSW "Clubs" ("Registered Club" or "RSL Club") are required by legislation to record entry. Pubs aren't, and nightclubs would only bother if they've had a major insurance claim and were trying to avoid hikes in their premiums.
What an "RSL Club" is, and the nexus of legislation and idiotic operational rules attached to their tax free status, can be a little too difficult to explain to an American. But operationally it's similar to a Native American reservation casino with the same negative social effects on the surrounding community.
What an "RSL Club" is, and the nexus of legislation and idiotic operational rules attached to their tax free status, can be a little too difficult to explain to an American. But operationally it's similar to a Native American reservation casino with the same negative social effects on the surrounding community.
My license is the card type and it was renewed after the digital license was introduced so I had the choice to have both but I deliberately chose not to do so.
This smacks of another one of those deals where gullible government public servants have been hoodwinked by technology sales people who smell an easy buck from government.
There's another reason not to have a digital license and that's because it requires the parallel installation of the Service NSW app on one's phone. I'm not the brightest person on rhe planet but I'm not stupid enough to put a government app on my phone - I don't need to voluntarily allow the Government to track my movements, steal my data and so forth. Anyone who does that I reckon is a bit balmy.
It never ceases to surprise me how many people easily fall for stuff like this when the Government is pushing the tech. I don't trust the government with my data anymore than I do Google and Facebook with it.