Governments and banks love this, but I've even seen it with phone companies with e-sims. I quickly needed a new phone subscription, so I considered an e-sim, because I figured you could activate it by scanning the QR code from the screen. But no, they will mail me a piece of plastic with the QR code on it. So I went with a regular sim instead.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see. Well, I think if you could just scan the code from the screen, that probably would open up all kinds of gateways for scammers. On the other hand, faking a physical address is a bit more expensive.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I mean, in Canada we can activate esims by scanning a digital qr code, and we have significantly less scam calls than the US does... Because we have much better laws about that sort of thing.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

We had this too but instead of waiting for a letter you just had to go to any post office. It's more practical because there's no waiting

[–] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 1 day ago

My government sorta did this before... *thuder crack* DIGITAL ID!