[LINK] Australian Digital Driving Licenses

[Roger Clarke]

> On 31/5/22 19:21, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>> Australian digital driving licenses can be defaced in minutes
>> Brandon Vigliarolo 30 May 2022
>> https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/nsw_digital_drivers_licenses_hackable/

On 5/6/22 9:03 am, Tom Worthington wrote:
> As the article says, the data is only being altered on the driver's
> phone. The database the police use is unaffected. So when the driver
> presents the altered license, they risk arrest.

Um, only when they present the licence to a police constable, or to some
other person who has (a) access to the motor registry database or some
derivative database or intermediary, and (b) powers of arrest.

With the massive slide during recent decades towards driver's licence as
general-purpose identity authenticator, what would you reckon the ratio
is between presentation to other-than-the-police to presentation to
the-police?  10:1?  20:1?

I have to think back a long time to the most recent presentation of mine
to a policeman - maybe 5-7 years?  Oh yes, Federal Hway at Yass River at
10pm one night, maybe 4-5 years ago.

(For PC people - politically correct, not police constable - I mean
-man.  I don't recall yet having to produce my diver's licence to a
policewoman.  A statistical fluke?).


Oh, and confiscation of the licence appears more likely than arrest -
unless the lookup on the wanted list shows that the person associated
with whatever licence you used was currently wanted for some other,
sufficiently serious offence.


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