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Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet (www.theverge.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago

This will make a lots of kids happy! Free age verification materials!

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago

he discovered that those passports, drivers licenses, and photo IDs were stored at public URLs as simple as this: https://ccsnubev2.com/v8/images/_%7Bclub%7D/ID/%7Buser_id%7D-front.jpg

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[–] m4ylame0wecm@lemmy.zip 37 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

An Irish company called Cannabis Club Systems (CCS), formally Nefos Solutions, develops and provides the software these clubs use for sales, accounting, and admissions, including a verification system where receptionists upload your IDs and selfies to Nefos’ cloud.

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What were they smoking when they hashed out this solution?

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

No need to get salty.

[–] overstep8556@jlai.lu 1 points 14 hours ago

Paywalled.