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My proctored test didn't even have a qr code, it had some 20 character unique id but I highly doubt anyone would take the time to call the phone number and veri

My proctored test didn't even have a qr code, it had some 20 character unique id but I highly doubt anyone would take the time to call the phone number and verify, having gone out of the country a couple times and back in. For the US side these are the flight check in clerks checking, not even government agents. It's honestly insulting how easy it would be to fake. As a law abiding citizen, we jump through all these hoops, but as a criminal, you spend 5 minutes at home in photoshop and your test is 99.99% guaranteed to work. Hell you edit the unique ID I was talking about to just be invalid, I bet even if they check they'll just force you to get tested again thinking it was a system error.

underwater 5y ago
> As a law abiding citizen, we jump through all these hoops This is not like a regular law where evading the law and the negative outcome are 1:1 correlated E.g. smuggling a bomb onto a plane. In this case the people who lead to a negative outcome are not aware that they have the virus. If you think you don't have COVID then the upside to faking a test is low enough that very few people take that path.
- ApolloFortyNine 5y ago
  I'm not sure if that's true, if you have to travel for some reason and you take the test and are found to not have covid, you obviously don't have any reason to fake it. However if you're going to a wedding/see family member/some other trip you value, and you do test positive, you now have quite a good reason to fake it, and if at any point in the past you have a valid test with no QR code on it, could easily modify the date.