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What about people who buy stolen passports on the dark web? Or passport details that get leaked in data breaches
by lobsterthief 2y ago
What about people who buy stolen passports on the dark web? Or passport details that get leaked in data breaches
- unethical_ban 2y agoWe need a German to chime in with whatever word describes this scenario, when someone suggests an action is not worth doing because of corner cases or inability to perfectly execute a process. In this hypothetical, let's say we'd tackle the dark web passport market issue when we get there.
- Tepix 2y agoIn this case, the english word overkill does a good job already.
- dom96 2y agohehe yeah, it's funny how many are focusing on the small edge case that makes a certain solution not 100% perfect. There is also another issue: people can have more than one passport if they're dual citizens. But you know what... I think that's fine.
- lobsterthief 2y agoGreat points
- mike_hearn 2y agoPassports have digitally signed certificates in them, readable by any device with an NFC radio. It's easy enough to extract that data with a mobile app, and now you have an unforgeable file that can be hashed. Of course whether users will bother to sign up for something like a social network if they have to go rummage around and find a passport, install a mobile app etc, I don't know. But it's technically possible and I've proposed such a scheme years ago. For bonus points do the hashing inside a secure enclave so the ePassport data is never upload to a remote server in the clear.