>Don't all sorts of person-related details come in handy to stage a social engineering hack?
Maybe? But also maybe not really?
Passport numbers change very frequently, nobody uses them to identify people.
Maybe? But also maybe not really?
Passport numbers change very frequently, nobody uses them to identify people.
As a perpetual foreigner I've never had to use my passport number for identification.
>passport S/Ns are being used as part of identification procedures.
Where?
Of course it does. Numbers used to identify people generally don't. Passport number identifies the individual document, mostly so it can be checked against INTERPOL's SLTD database.