In late 2019, the government of New South Wales in Australia rolled out digital driver's licenses. The new licenses allowed people to use their iPhone or Android device to show proof of identity and age during roadside police checks or at bars, stores, hotels, and other venues. ServiceNSW, as the government body is usually referred to, promised it would “provide additional levels of security and protection against identity fraud, compared to the plastic [driver's license]” citizens had used for decades.
Now, 30 months later, security researchers have shown that it’s trivial for just about anyone to forge fake identities using the digital driver's licenses, or DDLs. The technique allows people under drinking age to change their date of birth and for fraudsters to forge fake identities. The process takes well under an hour, doesn’t require any special hardware or expensive software, and will generate fake IDs that pass inspection using the electronic verification system used by police and participating venues. All of this, despite assurances that security was a key priority for the newly created DDL system.
“To be clear, we do believe that if the Digital Driver's Licence was improved by implementing a more secure design, then the above statement made on behalf of ServiceNSW would indeed be true, and we would agree that the Digital Driver's Licence would provide additional levels of security against fraud compared to the plastic driver's licence,” Noah Farmer, the researcher who identified the flaws, wrote in a post published last week.
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Das rassistische europäische Selbstverständnis verwüstet seit 500 Jahren Menschen und Natur. In Alltag, Politik und Wissenschaft wird es so perfekt verdrängt, dass ihm kein Regenwurm, keine Mangrove und letztlich kein Mensch entkommen wird (Teil 1)
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2018 hat Canon die spiegellosen Systemkameras der R-Serie vorgestellt. Nach vier Jahren erweitert der Hersteller diese mit APS-C-Kameras. (Canon, Digitalkamera)
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Nach monatenlangem Kampf - spürbar durch Bugs in Call of Duty - hat die QA-Abteilung von Raven Software eine Arbeitnehmervertertung gewählt. (
Für 9 Euro durch ganz Deutschland - was für die ÖPNV-Reisenden wie ein guter Deal klingt, hat für die Verkehrsunternehmen ein paar Haken. Ein Bericht von Martin Wolf (
2018 hat Canon die spiegellosen Systemkameras der R-Serie vorgestellt. Nach vier Jahren erweitert der Hersteller diese mit APS-C-Kameras. (