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Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card

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Post by ksaj »

aphit wrote: post #2

What's to prevent someone from using this to forge vaccine cards?

What mechanism stops people from forging the original vaccine cards?

In Canada you can receive up to $20,000 in fines for falsifying this information, so you really have to want to avoid the shots badly if you wanted to go down that route.

But the reality is, most places that aren't medical or international border facilities, that would require proof of vaccination simply don't have the ability to verify any of the current certificates. Including the original CDC cards from the US.

The website and domain whois info don't say who these people are, and don't ever mention they are in any way connected to the CDC. It looks like all they do is take the hand-written parts of your original cards and plug them into their template that may or may not be using the CDC logo and identity legally.

Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card

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Post by tintt »

ksaj wrote: post #3
aphit wrote: post #2

What's to prevent someone from using this to forge vaccine cards?

What mechanism stops people from forging the original vaccine cards? In Canada you can receive up to $20,000 in fines for falsifying this information, so you really have to want to avoid the shots badly if you wanted to go down that route. But the reality is, most places that aren't medical or international border facilities, that would require proof of vaccination simply don't have the ability to verify any of the c…

> “What mechanism stops people from forging the original vaccine cards?”

None, and that’s the real problem of the CDC cards. For a service like this to succeed, it needs to come up with a verifiable solution, which I admit is pretty difficult to do other than on a federal or state level.

Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card

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Post by seancoleman »

Hey HN!

My name is Sean, and I'm a fractional CTO / full-stack developer. This is a project I joined up with a couple months ago. I figured the HN community would appreciate seeing our lean MVP.

We're solving that simple, pesky problem of oversized CDC vaccine cards not fitting in wallets (and getting torn to shreds in doing so). The web app allows you to scan your vaccine card, and we'll ship you a credit-card size plastic VaxCard that fits much better.

I'm happy to answer any questions (especially around technical and security details). I love sharing new products with this community (for some brutal honesty ;))!

Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card

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Post by 8eye »

seancoleman wrote: post #8

Hey HN! My name is Sean, and I'm a fractional CTO / full-stack developer. This is a project I joined up with a couple months ago. I figured the HN community would appreciate seeing our lean MVP. We're solving that simple, pesky problem of oversized CDC vaccine cards not fitting in wallets (and getting torn to shreds in doing so). The web app allows you to scan your vaccine card, and we'll ship you a credit-card size…

yea don’t go down this path.
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