Ming the Merciless
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Yep, then you change the numbers.
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Yep, then you change the numbers.
Slick
Guru
To what though?
I know I'm probably being thick but I'm just not getting how you get to generate a genuine code randomly.
Ming the Merciless
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The point is the codes aren’t random and you don’t have to do anything complicated. I think you think there’s more validation than there really is. It really is quite slack.
DaveReading
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+1
In the time you would take to hit on a random number that corresponds to one that the system will accept, you would probably be quicker to order and await delivery of a box of kits.
Ming the Merciless
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It’s not random Dave, nothing that sophisticated
Slick
Guru
I suppose the reason I ask is, I'm responsible for checking these are carried out at work for both staff and students. I know they can be easily faked if you have the kits, which we give them, but I just don't get why you would. That said, we know some do but in the main, we think it works for us as we are detecting cases almost weekly but as yet nobody has caught it at work. 🤞
DaveReading
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Are you saying that you have successfully submitted a home test result with a fabricated QR code, or are you hypothesising ?
kingrollo
Guru
????????
Aren't you just repeating what I have said.
You can't feasibly test your own immune system. The best case scenario widely reported protection V omricon is 75% after 3 jabs.
Ming the Merciless
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I have to test out and then cancelled before last step. The last digit is a check digit but other than that easy to fake.
Ming the Merciless
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No because the 75% isn’t saying you are 75% protected. It’s saying 75% of vaccinated population will be fully protected from hospitalisation. Which is subtly different.
kingrollo
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Ming the Merciless
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I suggest to read the actual paper and the maths.
DaveReading
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In other words, a randomly entered code has a 90% chance of being rejected ...
So I stand by my comment that if you want to game the system, it's much easier just to order the kits and then scan the test strip without having bothered to do the test.
In other words, a randomly entered code has a 90% chance of being rejected ...
So I stand by my comment that if you want to game the system, it's much easier just to order the kits and then scan the test strip without having bothered to do the test.
classic33
Leg End Member
The codes on the tests aren't in numerical order to prevent any being "used twice".
I read from the book, my writing, having not entered the current test number in it. Got the answer that it had already been used, had I got the number correct?
Ming the Merciless
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Maybe not in your pack of 7 but accepted codes are pretty much any three letters and 8 numbers with last one being the check digit.
