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I'm surprised that neither the blog post nor the comments here yet mentioned another obvious giveaway to the forgery: The photo and card inside the plastic lam
by labcomputer 2y ago
I'm surprised that neither the blog post nor the comments here yet mentioned another obvious giveaway to the forgery:
The photo and card inside the plastic lamination show signs of wear. Parts of the photo are rubbed off around the edge, and the paper is stained. At the same time, the lamination is relatively clean. How does that make any sense? That's suspicious, even without seeing Espinosa's badge.
[edit: the photo of Espinosa's badge shows a worn lamination and clean, unworn paper and photo]
On top of that, the lamination has a cutout so it can be attached to a lanyard or retractor. The cutout shows no sign of wear.
It's as if the forger imagined company badges work like library cards: You keep them in your wallet, and only remove them to check out a book. In the forger's head canon, the company must have later decided to laminate the badges (without replacing them!) and require everyone had to wear them visibly (hence the cutout).
It makes no sense.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoRetractable lanyards weren't a thing in the 70's and would never be used for a landscape format ID. These would have been clipped to a pocket or collar. https://www.watson.ch/digital/wirtschaft/272982293-vom-hacker-zum-apple-erfinder-das-verrueckte-leben-des-steve-wozniak https://www.watson.ch/digital/wirtschaft/272982293-vom-hacke...
- labcomputer 2y agoSure, but the point is that the hole shows the badge is meant to be clipped to something and worn in a visible place. As such, it will naturally bump into things and the lamination will accrue wear marks.
- refurb 2y agoI noticed the badge hole too. It looks present punched and never been used.
- astrange 2y agoI keep my badge in my pocket since the clip occasionally wears out, and I don't think anyone has ever commented on this.
- ghaff 2y agoProbably depended how security conscious where you worked was. Pretty common into at least to 80s was a clip that attached to your front shirt pocket which pretty much everyone had and badge readers weren’t mostly a thing. If security were laxer you often just kept the badge in your pocket. But as another comment notes you didn’t tend to just keep your badge in your wallet.