On Friday 28 April 2006 11:03 am, Mitchell Brown wrote: > Hehe. Thanks for that :) > But well, secure certainly helps trust worthy. Being a government-issued > card is not something to bawk at either!
Yep, the government is very trustworthy and completely honest ;) > > Just curious -- how do they get the information out of the encrypted > barcode? Sounds like a hacker challenge to me :P > > On 4/28/06, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:47:46AM -0600, Mitchell Brown wrote: > > > Well they do say that the Alberta drivers license is the most secure > > > > card in > > > > > north america! > > > Beat that! > > > > Just a little observation is that 'trust worthy' does not equal 'secure'. > > > > Sure the card contains design elements that make it hard to forge, but > > the the data on the card is not secure. > > > > There are many cases of night clubs using driving licenses as proof of > > ID, and then capturing all the personal information contianed in the 2D > > barcode > > on the back (which contains quite a bit of info!) and then spamming the > > holder. > > > > Simon. > > (in privacy nut mode) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
