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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:30:24 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   @natkr I once proved ID to a hotel and, more concerningly, the post office by showing a credit card with my name on it

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:30:50 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @natkr in the country where I lived before this would _extremely_ not fly anywhere and I was absolutely baffled that it worked

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     Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:48:38 JST Jernej Simončič �

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     @whitequark @natkr Reminds me of buying codesigning certificates from Globalsign and Comodo. Both ignored the government-issued ids (including a certificate issued by the state CA), and instead required me to provide a bank statement and some bills in my name (for Comodo I even had to have them notarised); as all of my statements and bills have been digital for close to two decades (and digital bills were not considered trustworthy, despite having a digital signature), I simply printed them on a colour laser printer, then photocopied them and notarised the copy.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:48:38 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @jernej__s @natkr that checks out for a bunch of other bureaucracy i had to do