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In Europe “I’m sorry, I didn’t take my passport with me, but I remember my passport number” has had a 100% success rate for me.
by ryanlol 6y ago
In Europe “I’m sorry, I didn’t take my passport with me, but I remember my passport number” has had a 100% success rate for me.
- mindslight 6y agoSo then you're committing fraud or whatever. Once again, law abiding people bear the burden while bogeyman-with-beard just gives a false number. One of the general difficulties with the government threat actor is that law abiding people have to thread the needle of both technical protection and legal requirements.
- socks 6y agoQuoting your own true passport number is not fraud. Fraud would be supplying a fake passport number / fake passport / doctored photocopy.
- mindslight 6y agoI was responding to the implication that you could just give a fake number.
- komali2 6y ago> So then you're committing fraud or whatever. But how would they ever catch you?
- mindslight 6y agoDetermine who you actually are based on the location pattern of the sim card, which they'll end up doing at automated scale since it's so easy to record a fake ID. Prosecution for just that seems unlikely, but rather selective enforcement.