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We who are vaccinated should be at peace and trust this vaccine will reduce the likelihood of severe illness. Those who aren’t, I wish them the best, but that’s their choice.
Hopefully this will finally encourage smokers to quit and the obese to cut out a few sodas per day.
Random question, but related: Like this example, I see lots of other applications that require a QR code storing binary data and chose to encoded this data as Base64 (or others) and then add it to a ASCII-only QR code format. Why don't they use a binary-mode QR code? Compatibility?
Good! Keep it up. Let things be, enough of this vaccine pass comrade BS. We who are vaccinated should be at peace and trust this vaccine will reduce the likelihood of severe illness. Those who aren’t, I wish them the best, but that’s their choice. Hopefully this will finally encourage smokers to quit and the obese to cut out a few sodas per day.
You're going to get heavily downvoted, but I totally agree. The vaccine pass is a complete farce. I even have non-technical friends that have faked vaccine passes. For someone even remotely technical, it's trivial to Photoshop.
If only we had the same fervor when it comes to demonizing weight gain, we could save 10x more lives.
Good! Keep it up. Let things be, enough of this vaccine pass comrade BS. We who are vaccinated should be at peace and trust this vaccine will reduce the likelihood of severe illness. Those who aren’t, I wish them the best, but that’s their choice. Hopefully this will finally encourage smokers to quit and the obese to cut out a few sodas per day.
Anyone knows if this is applicable to Covid passes used in the European Union as well?
The private keys for the European Green Pass have been leaked and fake passes signed with the keys are being sold on the dark web. https://threatpost.com/eus-green-pass-vaccination-id-private...
Random question, but related: Like this example, I see lots of other applications that require a QR code storing binary data and chose to encoded this data as Base64 (or others) and then add it to a ASCII-only QR code format. Why don't they use a binary-mode QR code? Compatibility?
At some level "compatibility" is correct. System 1 outputs binary data, system 2 takes that and turns it into JSON, system 3 encodes that in base64, system 4 turns that into QR codes, and system 4 was what was mandated for producing all of the organisation's QR codes.
Anyone knows if this is applicable to Covid passes used in the European Union as well?
The private keys for the European Green Pass have been leaked and fake passes signed with the keys are being sold on the dark web. https://threatpost.com/eus-green-pass-vaccination-id-private...
Passes have been sold (through the clear web and the dark web) but many have also been revoked since. As far as I know, the certificates being sold right now are either someone else's certificate (for places that don't check your ID when you walk in) and certificates generated by people working for places that also give out legitimate certificates, such as some pharmacies and hospitals.
People have resorted to downloading the PDF and "hacking it" (editing it in Acrobat).
Nobody ever actually checks whether the certificate is valid or not.
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It seems that actually nothing has had a meaningful impact on coronavirus spread.
> seems…nothing has had a meaningful impact on coronavirus spread Not sure if trolling, but in case not, vaccination has had “a substantial impact on mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks” in America [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709178/
I remember here in Canada there were concerns about this sort of thing when rolling out our proof-of-vaccination system, but practically speaking, the number of people with both the technical understanding and inclination to do this is surely too small to have a meaningful impact on COVID spread.
Here in the NL there have been tons of people that sold COVID passes, some working at vaccination places, others working at testing places. Instead of hacking anything, they've just been committing regular fraud. The street value of these passes seems to be round €300 to €500. The government has been blacklisting these passes ever since they were first spotted, leaving many of their "customers" angry now that they can no longer fraud their way through the necessary checks.
The problem is not so much a technical one, as modern crypto is quite unbreakable. The pass in the article is based on RSA-512, which has been proven to be breakable all the way back in 1999. With elliptic curve cryptography the system can still remain unbreakable even with shorter keys that can fit into a small QR code, though space is rarely a problem with these codes anyway.