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But they have one advantage: They are way easier to counterfeit. Meaning that with a few months of programming at most, if you ever find yourself on a run, you'll be able to ID yourself on trains or buses or check in to hotels with fake personal info.
you realize they're more than just your picture on a screen, right? there's a whole public key private key verification process that happens, which covers your photo and personal info, at least from what I understand of ISO 18013-5.
if anything it should be almost impossible to make a fake mobile id, barring exploits in reader software or the govt leaking their private key.
Yes I do. Therefore I would never use it in front of state authorities, but I doubt a hotel receptionist would make use of a pubkey cryptography.
you don't think they'll just use some app to verify it? my state's mdl doesn't even show any personal info other than name, if they want birthday they have to scan it
If you're just flashing an ID like a badge, maybe not. But as soon as the hotel tries to use the information to do anything (even as trivial as adding it to their local systems) there's a good chance it'll get bounced or hung up. A fake digital id is worse than none at all. Its a big red flag saying "Look harder at this person, they're suspicious!"