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Forgery-proof Covid passports

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Lanark
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Re: Forgery-proof Covid passports

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Postby Lanark » April 4th, 2021, 11:14 am

As someone who has worked on NHS IT systems, I predict it will cost £10 billion and take 10 years to implement, then 7 years into the scheme when all the money has been spent, everyone will realise it does not benefit anyone and actually provides no useful service whatsoever.
The system will then be declared an overwhelming success and kept quietly running in the background for the next 20+ years.

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Re: Forgery-proof Covid passports

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Postby Mike4 » April 4th, 2021, 11:26 am

Lanark wrote:As someone who has worked on NHS IT systems, I predict it will cost £10 billion and take 10 years to implement, then 7 years into the scheme when all the money has been spent, everyone will realise it does not benefit anyone and actually provides no useful service whatsoever.
The system will then be declared an overwhelming success and kept quietly running in the background for the next 20+ years.


We are discussing vaccine passports, not the Track and Trace scheme :lol:

Although I grant you that hosed £37bn up the wall in just a year, not the ten billion you mention over seven...

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Re: Forgery-proof Covid passports

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Postby tjh290633 » April 4th, 2021, 11:37 am

XFool wrote:...Have you followed the link to see if it leads anywhere?

Mine has simple barcodes for birthday and, I presume, NHS number. With dates and batch numbers for both injections written on the back.

I have checked it, and it gives my name, Date of Birth and NHS Number.

TJH

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Re: Forgery-proof Covid passports

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Postby kiloran » May 22nd, 2021, 12:52 pm

doolally wrote:Whatever the ethics and pros/cons of Covid passports, how might a passport be implemented which is proof against forgery?

It strikes me that a simple certificate would be easily forged.

doolally

Well, you are right! I downloaded my vaccination certificate last night. It was a PDF, which I could open in Word or LibreOffice and modify anything I liked. Absolutely worthless.

And I see today that the BBC have reported this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57208607

--kiloran


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