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In Europe “I’m sorry, I didn’t take my passport with me, but I remember my passport number” has had a 100% success rate for me.

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So then you're committing fraud or whatever. Once again, law abiding people bear the burden while bogeyman-with-beard just gives a false number.

One of the general difficulties with the government threat actor is that law abiding people have to thread the needle of both technical protection and legal requirements.

Quoting your own true passport number is not fraud. Fraud would be supplying a fake passport number / fake passport / doctored photocopy.

I was responding to the implication that you could just give a fake number.

> So then you're committing fraud or whatever.

But how would they ever catch you?

Determine who you actually are based on the location pattern of the sim card, which they'll end up doing at automated scale since it's so easy to record a fake ID. Prosecution for just that seems unlikely, but rather selective enforcement.

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