But don't forget guys, uploading your government IDs to any old fucking website to prove your age is very safe and protects children. There's no way this could go wrong and everyone in the supply chain is very trustworthy
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
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The only way to fix this is to have us upload our IDs online constantly, perhaps to prove we are adults.
It is the only way we can we safe.
But, just think about the children! ~While everyone plastered their children allover social media and they are easily identified with AI~
Woaha. Why didn't anyone think of this before you?
Also it doesn't help that, for example, at U-Haul, employees just use their personal phone to scan a QR code and take pictures of your ID.
this idea that employees can expect you own and use a personal smartphone as part of the job irks the heck out of me.
I read that if you use a personal device for anything work related in the US, it means your entire personal device (everything on it) can be considered discovery in a lawsuit against that company. Big risk to take.
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My local hospital apparently requires their employees to use a "secure" app on their personal phone to transmit data on the patients.
Seems like irresponsible handling of PHI (by the administration, not the staff) to me.
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I bought a domain, configured the webserver in the next 5m.
As soon as it started taking requests (on a domain that i haven't even announced yet) it got flooded by bots.
Yeah I worked for company with publicly exposed server, the logs were amazing.
Just bots scanning default ports trying default username and password for services like Microsoft SQL server.
It’s such a waste of energy really
That's been happening since forever, though. I helped manage proxy servers for my first job in the mid 00's, and those server logs were mostly automated port scans and failed login attempts, even on the newly commissioned servers.
If your browser is based on chromium, you're employing an army of bots yourself that gets enabled each time you enter any domain.
Can you explain what you mean exactly?
Registering SSL is a centralized process with root CAs logging new ones as they come in. Cert transparency logs are a thing, and Google is very involved: https://certificate.transparency.dev/
Once a bad actor hooks up to that, they just get a realtime stream of places to start port scanning and running WHOIS queries for people who didn't get WHOIS protection. If you used letsencrypt your domains you registered certs for got sent there and anyone who wanted to know about it knew about it before you could tell anyone.
You can use something like crt.sh to look up domains
I don't like it when a store scans my driver's license to buy alcohol. I stick to small convenience stores without that tech.
Why would they do that? What's the use of scanning it?
It keeps liquor prices down because you get the extra revenue from selling the scans. Try to keep up smh
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It validates against the states license database to confirm it’s a legitimate ID and not a fake.
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Had a fun time visiting the US, clerk didn't understand why she couldn't scan my ID and find it in the database. All that for trying to buy some cigarettes as I was a smoker at the time and didn't bring much with me (stupid mistake, they're way more expensive in the US)
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Annnd this is why a refuse to verify with IDs online and use services like Plaid. And the web of T&C's from multiple 3rd party services like this will mean all of them get shielded from blame.
Did you read the article? They were renting a car. A car rental place isn't going to let you just not show your ID.
So how they did it once upon a time was you showed them your license, they punched the # into the system that would check it. The person at the desk would confirm it was you from the picture. No need to scan the actual ID card, which is where this problem comes from.
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My elderly father recently fell for a Facebook imposter that pretended to be a family member and asked if their friend could contact him. The friend asked him to take a photo of his driver's license and text it to them, fortunately he doesn't know how. I've been wondering ever since what can they do if they had it? It doesn't have his social security number on it. His credit has since been locked and banks notified
They can open bank or crypto accounts in his name, and then either overdraw the account or use it to move money from other scams in and out of this account, so the real scammers name is not attached to this account.
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I’ve been wondering ever since what can they do if they had it?
Ask for pictures of all his other paperwork so they can finish onboarding him at his new job.
Wait until non Americans hear that our national social security ID number is only 4/9 digits worth of “random” numbers. (Fun fact, the entire number was procedurally generated based on where you were born and in what order at the hospital for generations until they changed it recently)
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Luckily archive.org saved the idscan.net press release announcing their partnership with Planet13 dispensaries. They have since deleted the post on their site. Nothing shady about that. 😂
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This is yet another reason why virtual ID cards are superior: In the event that the card data is compromised, the old virtual ID can be revoked and a new virtual ID can be issued. Virtual ID cards can also have a much shorter duration, because the cost of rotating it is minimal. For example, California's virtual driver licenses rotate each 30 days.
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I have had to rent cars since 2015. My license has probably been seen by 5000 breach sites by now.
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