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General takeaway: Letting your bar/QR codes hang out may mean you're exposing your identity, or your cash even. Same goes for RFID chips of course. Good general
by teekert 3y ago
General takeaway: Letting your bar/QR codes hang out may mean you're exposing your identity, or your cash even. Same goes for RFID chips of course. Good general thing to keep in mind.
- jpsouth 3y agoA guy I know had to download an app to scan his passports RFID tag recently to verify, of all things, his LinkedIn profile. I’m no expert, and don’t know what sort of information that exposes, but I definitely grimaced at the thought when he was telling me the steps he took to verify.
- teekert 3y agoI have to do that sometimes as well. Said party told us it's "better than a picture of the document". No idea.
- jpsouth 3y ago‘Better than a picture of the document’ for security, for their purposes or for my ease? Who knows. I’d be loathe to do it personally, but then again there’s probably copies of my passport floating around who knows where online. According to the Home Office [0] > Scanning the chip in a passport has the highest level of trust. It also collects the largest amount of data, the chip contains: - the data in the machine-readable zone (MRZ) - at least one or more facial biometric encoding - zero or more finger biometric encodings [0] - https://design.homeoffice.gov.uk/patterns/enter-passport-details/scan-passport-chip https://design.homeoffice.gov.uk/patterns/enter-passport-det...