NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft

Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft by xxpor on Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:44PM (#29584378)

Or we could just have a modern ID card that already has a cert embedded in it, and skip the whole go to the post office step. Most big companies and the US Federal government have already figured this out for their own employees.

Keep the post office option for the folks that don't have an ID, but for most people, this would be the most straightforward option.

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Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft by noodlesUK on Thursday December 16, 2021 @06:37PM (#29585562)

This does work for certain things, but for some things you don’t just want proof of possession of a particular person’s ID card, you want to see that a particular person matches the document they are presenting in addition to verifying that the doc is real.

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Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft by xxpor on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:00PM (#29595757)

I'd have to imagine that's exceptionally rare though. It would be semi-solved with a second factor to unlock the card.

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