Thousands reportedly attempt to obtain easily forged vaccinated certificate

Well, that didn't take long. Isreal recently became the first country to require mandatory vaccine certificates, they call the 'Green Pass' in order to live one's daily life.

These consist of an app or something with your info, date of vaccination and a qr code that stores the same data.

Turns out, the passes are fairly easy to forge using something like photoshop. The data are stored in in the qr code as an unencrypted text string making it easy to generate and just paste over.

www.timesofisrael.com...

As Israel begins to reopen gyms, hotels, and other venues starting next week, and require those who want to make use of them to show proof that they have been vaccinated against, or have recovered from, COVID-19, many were skeptical of the security of the documentation that shows their status, the so-called “green pass.”

“It is easy with a graphics program to change the text on the pass, but the QR code is what looks scary and hard to forge, no? Actually, this is very easy,” Ran Bar-Zik, an expert on cybersecurity, wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday.

Bar-Zik explained that the QR code on the Health Ministry “green pass” has no encryption, and corresponds directly to a string of text, with the holder’s personal information, including name, ID number, and date of vaccination, identical to the text printed on the pass itself.

I'm just hoping they're still as easily forgable when these are rolled out globally.

So lemme get this straight. Israel with their spiffy new 21st Century “health passes”, are including a QR code.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, aren’t QR codes kinda like.......

Bar Codes?

I'm already in the market for my black market jab pass here in the USA.
Freedom freedom freedom, oi!


QR codes, as far as I can tell, are just a visual representation of a URL / web link. Sounds easy enough to hack.

a reply to: slatesteam

Correct me if I’m wrong here, aren’t QR codes kinda like.......

Bar Codes?

They're pretty much literally barcodes with an extra dimension.

Bar codes store data horizontally.

Qr codes store data horizontally and vertically.

originally posted by: dug88
a reply to: slatesteam

Correct me if I’m wrong here, aren’t QR codes kinda like.......

Bar Codes?

They're pretty much literally barcodes with an extra dimension.

Bar codes store data horizontally.

Qr codes store data horizontally and vertically.

Thanks dug, I was kinda quoting for posterity’s sake.

originally posted by: lordcomac
I'm already in the market for my black market jab pass here in the USA.
Freedom freedom freedom, oi!


QR codes, as far as I can tell, are just a visual representation of a URL / web link. Sounds easy enough to hack.

Well, let me know when you are ready to start running them off... I will definitely be in need of one.

a reply to: dug88

My guess is that some will use this to usher in ID 2020
www.biometricupdate.com...
(this article is from Sept 2019--I especially enjoy the update/clarification aimed toward conspiracy theorists at the end)

a reply to: dug88

Yes, QR codes are easily generated. All you need to know is the data they must display with a simple barcode reader.

However, I'm sure the authorities already know this. It only takes a cross reference with a national database, containing the same information, to weed out all the forged passes.

People will be doubly in trouble. Evading lockdown rules and fraud.

a reply to: dug88

I'm just hoping they're still as easily forgable when these are rolled out globally.

So you don't think the article might possibly only exist to show
motive for a different kind of pass? Something other than
documentation papers that can be lost stolen or forged?

You do know what time it is right?

originally posted by: lordcomac
QR codes ... Sounds easy enough to hack.

It's as easy as running a barcode creator program, generating a QR code, clicking on it and typing in whatever data you want it to display when it's scanned.

originally posted by: slatesteam
So lemme get this straight. Israel with their spiffy new 21st Century “health passes”, are including a QR code.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, aren’t QR codes kinda like.......

Bar Codes?

Nice catch. You just won a song for the day.



If we ever have to show a pass here, I'll be forging me one, too.

Is this the line for forged QR Vaccination Records?
Am I first?? Yay!!

Sounds like a promising new business venture, selling vaccine verification cards. I know someone who could probably make those and even possibly make them seem legitimate when scanned and compared. I think the guy still does that kind of hacking stuff, although he must be fifty by now, maybe he got tired of it already.

Sign me up, I want one of those.

originally posted by: dug88
a reply to: slatesteam

Correct me if I’m wrong here, aren’t QR codes kinda like.......

Bar Codes?

They're pretty much literally barcodes with an extra dimension.

Bar codes store data horizontally.

Qr codes store data horizontally and vertically.

Pretty much literally doesn’t fill one with confidence.

Interesting that Israel is taking the mark of the beat before any other country, soo much for the God chosen, or that is what the bible said.

Ebay

Because a lot of us just don’t care about Covid.

I once knew a guy that would provide fake "proof of insurance" cards for people for a small fee. It worked great to show the cop at a traffic stop to avoid the insurance ticket and a tow. Not so much when you got into an accident though.

a reply to: dug88


LOL , Where there is a Will , there is a Way ................So True.