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Having your drivers license fall into the hands of a bad actor must be a complete nightmare. Uploading a photo of government ID is also the backdoor to all sor
by gorgoiler 7y ago
Having your drivers license fall into the hands of a bad actor must be a complete nightmare.
Uploading a photo of government ID is also the backdoor to all sorts of things. The one that worries me is my Facebook account, including all my private messages.
A better idea: the data collectors should ask me for a notarized letter confirming my identity (the notary has seen my government ID) which references a unique support-ticket number from the data collector (avoid replay attacks). The data collector would verify the letter out-of-band with the notary too? I’d be a lot happier with that.
What else would such a pen and paper protocol need to work? The notary network is a handy piece of national infra — it can be trusted in this way? Legislation would be needed to force the data collectors to adhere to the protocol.
- papln 7y agoNotarization essentially puts a $30-$100 price tag on the operation, which meets with a lot of resistance.
- astura 7y agoMost banks and credit unions provide their customers notary services for free or low cost. Even Bank of F̶e̶e̶s̶ America provides free notary services.
- bonyt 7y agoThat sounds high. In New York, at least, a notary can’t charge more than $2.00 in most circumstances.
- gorgoiler 7y agoIt shouldn’t be that expensive. Which state do you live in? I’ve had documents notarized for only nominal charges, through a notary I shared an office with in California.
- dheera 7y agoConsidering how many people are notaries and how easy it is to become a notary, I don't think it's any form of security. It's just an artificially created market for people to make quick bucks signing documents.
- skyyler 7y agoNotaries typically cannot notarize their own documents.
- dheera 7y agoSo get your friend to be the notary? It seems like an incredibly insecure system to me for the 21st century world when we have much better ways, e.g. signing keys.
- murph-almighty 7y agoThe point of a notary is that there's a witness to you signing papers. You can't serve as an unbiased witness if you're the person signing the papers.