Re: All 30 New accounts got deactivated Quote:
Originally Posted by Freakzilla It's not. There's software which can tell if a document is ⊗⊗⊗⊗. | It's pretty hard to tell if a document is real or not from a scan or a picture of it since a scan does not capture all the security features (and the ones that are hardest to replicate aren't visible on a scan).
If the govt offers some way to validate a passport, that would be pretty hard to beat as they can check it against the database. By "access" that includes submitting it for the govt to return a result. For example, Amazon can access the EIN database through the IRS's TIN matching application, which lets them know if your company name and EIN match or not.
Any kind of check digit/barcode/etc is easily replicated by any ID maker who even remotely knows what they're doing. Machine readable text/barcodes are there for the purpose of making it easier to process the IDs with a scanner, not as a security feature (the check digits are not a security feature either, that's to have the machine reject the scan if the check digits don't add up to avoid mis-scans). The information on how the encoding works is more or less public.
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