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Old Jun 13, 2016 | 11:03 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Worth noting that the PDF barcodes used to not be digitally signed so they were much easier to forge, including giving yourself precheck if you wanted to. For that reason they were not permitted on digital screens for a while. Dunno if they are signed properly now or not.
I would love to read about this issue if you have any link to it. Having client side validation of a security permission - pure stupidity but I can imagine how this happened...
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