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You're missing at least five (media.piefed.zip)

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[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 38 points 18 hours ago

Yes, and banks when you wanna activate online banking. Arguably, then it's just for registering, and logging in then works differently.

[-] mcv@lemmy.zip 10 points 17 hours ago

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 16 hours ago

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 1 points 8 hours 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.