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A UK digital driving licence: What could possibly go wrong?

Velv
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Re: It Bodes

"...and a certificate of your identity. The latter use only works at all if this is a physical card with security features which make it difficult to reproduce."

The latter use only works at all if this is a physical card item with security features which make it difficult to reproduce.

Lothian Buses do M-Tickets on your SmartPhone - you activate a pre-paid ticket and show the screen to the driver. Sounds easy to "fake". But it's an image with moving elements making it impossible to screenshot. An active security feature is harder to fake, so there's no reason any digital document couldn't have similar features.

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