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- aaronlidman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35now i just need a license...
i think i have to go outside to get one of those...
:( - mattyG, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22just like your girlfriend does
- buzzedlightyear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15i forgot there was a bar code on my DL.
i don't think its ever been scanned or used. - jediboytj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12my license doesn't have a barcode... just a credit card-like strip. but interesting none-the-less
- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It was just dump trucks then
- TVarmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The police will scan them in the event of a traffic violation to save time because they won't have to type in your info. I hear some bars also use these scanners for quick age checks that don't require the bartender to do math.
- mrxbma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7sounds legal. Be sure to look up past enemys
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10You know your making someone elses life a hell because you are too much of a prick to own up to your own offenses.
Maybe its time to grow up and take responsibility for your own actions. - iamcool, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This reminds me of when I went to a store to exchange an item. As usual they asked to see my drivers license. Without asking she popped it into a reader. I asked what she did had done, to which she replied, 'oh I just made a copy of your drivers license'. Turns out they used a third party company in California, who does nothing but outfit retialers with these devices, while they maintain the databases. To which they told me they hold my informtion indefinately.
While I do not believe the bar code should be used for commericial purposes, it can. So I'm very much doubting that decoding it would be illegal. - cyberdork33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7but you can erase the mag strip and plead ignorance ;)
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I did it and got a free trip to disney land, and mickey gave me a million dollars!
- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Now we just gotta see what we can get out of passports. That's what I'm really interested in.
- nobogeys217, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I didnt even know u could scan ur DL. the only people who would need to would be the police and they could just use the Criminal Justice Information System database to look at your records. They type your DL # in or your name and your Info comes up.
My dad is a cop, I got to play with the Alabama CJIS computrer the other day. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You are a ***** ***** of the highest caliber.
- ninjad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Word to the wise: Dont get caught
- batreyud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6why not tell that bitch to delete your info?
- splatnik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5what a dick, he's not even an organ donor!
- Demono, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If you are an organ donor, they are a lot less likely to try to save you
- AnthonyJr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7so, i'm starting a business.
- damightyzug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4all the bar code can hold is simple information. It's the Databases they query with that information that you really want to find out. Think about this. they would have to change the bar code on your card each time they wanted to update the info on you. Depending on your level of paranoia that could be 20 times a day.
- torpedobird, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Bars use these all the time, often not even looking at what is actually printed. Fake the barcode, fake your age, just about fake anything.
TBird - foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7that's not even the original duplicate. so, if you're going to submit a comment screaming, "DUPE! DUPE!" then at least get it right. this has been on digg many, many times before; but who cares? let it get submitted to digg in another month for those who haven't seen it by those who haven't seen it. soon enough, it'll make the front page again. deal with it and move on. eventually, enough links will have been submitted, and, hopefully, digg's dupe detector, or whatever will catch it, and it'll die off.
those are my thoughts on dupes. - kLacK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Really? How much is that?
- Eicos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In light of research suggesting that intelligence correlates positively with liberal politics, I would challenge your claim that increasing wisdom somehow leads to conservatism.
- AllenHSmilden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bank of america will let you swipe your drivers license or id card for identification purposes if you don't have your atm card.
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@stevester:
When my license had expired I went to buy beer at a gas station and they scanned it. Because it came back as expired they wouldn't sell me the beer. I asked if they could just look at the ID and verify my age that way and they said no. How stupid can they be? I stopped buying my beer there and went to the CVS next door even after I got my license renewed. - piradie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Uhm. Really really intersting, I dug it.
I've tried with my school id but it doesn't seem to work, it cannot read some parts of it :(
Anyways, really nice article, thanks for bringing it up :) - skeeto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The top bar code is basically the same info as the front of your card. The Family Video chain scanned mine last month, and I asked them what the heck that was for. The lady said it saves them time when you register there. Heh.
/ *waits for someone to start a web 2.0 service that offers to do this for people for "free...." / *
lol. - daeken, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4198?! I didn't even know they had the internets yet!
- f8pc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That guy is old. 09/20/198!!!!
- kenben, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5chill out on the ***** duplicate; digg DOES have a duplicate story option, bitch to them if you dont like it
he didnt really scream it either, some peopole just get tired of seeing duplicate stories - Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4That magnetic strip contains more information then the barcode. The barcode only knows info from when it was created whereas the magnetic strip can be rewritten time and time again with updated info. A barcode only contains the machine-readable data that is human readable on the DL.
- batreyud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2no it wouldn't be possible to edit the giftcards amount, because giftcards just have unique identification numbers. it would be absolutely retarded if the giftcard had the amount on the card itself... lol.
- speedstream, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mine has been scanned in a liquor store NY state as ID. The guy never looked at the DOB, he just scanned it and gave me the beer.
- Yankees368, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The decoder failed to decode any barcode in this image.
anyone have any tips? - Jace0228, on 02/12/2009, -2/+3I worked for a company briefly, Intellicheck, (IDN) that makes their money by decoding bar codes on drivers licenses for bars, convenience stores, etc that makes their money by selling devices to these places so the owners can know whether or not your of legal age.
Its not illegal to decode these devices but I guess your violating this companies patent...
There's a biz idea.. Write software that can decode a bar code, and you can get a patent on the technology and make money off of it.. I can see profiting from the hardware manufacture, but a patent that prevents others from reading government documents? Is it only me or does anyone else see the irony? - stevester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gas stations use them when you buy beer
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@james
Got the url for that? - kLacK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That high horse your on must be really expensive
- FastZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So basically all that's stored in the barcodes is the same ***** that's on the front of the card....why waste your time scanning and photochopping when you can just flip the license over and get the information you're looking for?
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I wrote LETS3 for Alabama CJIS..lots of regexes, javascript, and web services.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Great. I loathe people that just hand over personal information without even thinking.
I was stood behind some dumbass in target the other day that was buying wine.
The lady behind the counter said she had to scan the drivers license, the mag strip not the barcode (california drivers licenses have no such thing). The dumbass simply hands over her license which was scanned (I'm sure she could hear my gasps of amazement)... then the dumbass proceeds to pay with her credit card too.
Now, lets see, target has all the info from her drivers license, drivers license number , current address and her credit card number, expiration date and security code on the back.
Target are well known for looking up your physical address from your credit card and then usps spamming you, which means they must keep the credit card info and probably drivers license info on file, probably on some indian or filipino offshore database.
Why do people simply roll over and hand out all this information ?
I never give anything in the way of information, you'd be amazed how many people just hand over their phone number, zip code etc and wonder why they get junk mail / phone calls. Even giving out your zip code is dumb. They have your name from the credit card, it's simple to pay someone minimum wage to get your physical address and match your credit card number to an address and purchase history. - unloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Magnetic strips don't like magnets.
- jordandiggsit, on 10/21/2009, -0/+1I'm about 2 years late on this, but have been working on a project that uses a bar code scanner or a mag stripe reader to read the bar codes and the mag stripes in order to digitally verify someones age. The bar code CAN contain more information than the mag stripe, but that doesn't mean that it does. PDF417 bar codes can hold like 1000 characters, but not all states use all that real estate. Wisconsin (where I'm from) embeds a lot of information in the bar code, where as other states only embed the vitals (birth date, license expiration, etc).
Here is some more info on it, if you're really bored:
http://www.digitaldoorkeep.com/blog/category/drive ... - skeeto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hear you. That was the first time my ID was ever scanned. Didn't even expect it. I thought the clerk was going to manually type my name/address off the front into the computer to open the account. I got a weird look when I asked what the heck they just used the handheld scan thing for. If I knew Family Video did it, I wouldn't have opened an account there. God forbid the person behind the counter just simply asks you what your name and address is then type it in and perhaps look at the front of your ID to verify it. Nah, lets scan cards and get that info along with who knows what else. Thankfully in NY there are two different codes on the back of your ID. After some research, I learned the Family Video clerk was pretty much telling the truth about the top only containing your name, address, DOB, etc. They didn't scan the bottom part. Supposedly the newer national ID cards coming out (that will look like your local state ID) will have 1 strip with everything, which seems like more of a security risk. Sounds like some states are already doing that.
I wonder if there is a site that just lists businesses that scan ID cards. A nice awareness list of places to avoid. - williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, he's just getting out from under the money-grubbing scam of revenue stops and getting your insurance rates jacked up. Good for him!
Do you think cops get tickets? No, they don't. So when RFID comes out, just clone a cop's chip and send all speeding tickets to a cop. THAT would be hilarious. - Shroomie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My license doesn't even have a barcode. Just a magnetic strip with a bunch of ***** on it so it will probobly never work in anything.
- kLacK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I need my organs in case they bring me back to life someday
- schwit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have to get a new one in Virginia soon, so I am curious about recent changes. The DMV says I need to bring additional picture ID to verify I'm a US citizen. No problem, this is a good thing to reduce fraud.
My current Virginia license has/had a barcode. 5 minutes after I got it home when I originally got it I took a sharpie permanent marker to the barcode and made it a black box. I have been pulled over a few times since then and never have the police remarked about it.
You have to protect yourself. Personal security is your responsibility, not the government's. - theonesteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I fully read your post three times and, unless you're editing it right now, it doesn't say you had them delete your information. Maybe you could read your own post before acting like a dick about it.
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