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Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-17

This article discusses methods to recover the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes, potentially highlighting security vulnerabilities in the identification system.

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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale

Ars Technica ↗ · 2026-09-02 Cached

A dark website is selling 153 million driver's licenses, likely harvested in real-time from ID scanning services used by rental companies, leading to an FBI investigation.

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California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-06-28 Cached

The California legislature has agreed to upload driver's license and ID card data to a private national database (SPEXS) operated by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), under pressure from Governor Gavin Newsom and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Privacy advocates warn the data could be weaponized against immigrant and transgender individuals, despite claimed guardrails.

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