Steve Gibson
speaker
30,295 appearances
25 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
Steve Gibson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He says a date and timestamp is appended to each image file image file, and the timestamp on my license scan corresponds to a date in June 2025 when I took a flight to the Midwest United States to attend a family funeral.
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Yeah.
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Intent on discovering the source of this data, Krebs on Security asked more than a dozen friends and family members for permission to search for their licenses in this service.
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Each person whose license could be found, he said nine of them, confirmed having traveled on or very close to the dates in the timestamps attached to their images.
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It's unclear what time zone these timestamps are in, but from reviewing car rental records shared by several people who helped with this research, it appears the time zone is set.
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to GMT.
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At first, I thought the source of the data might have something to do with airports.
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However, that theory went out the window when it became apparent there were no passports in this data set.
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Also, only some of those who helped with this research said they showed their driver's license at the airport on the day of their travel.
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One person whose license was in Nexus had not flown at
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At all recently, but was renting a car from Hertz for several months around the date of their timestamp.
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Two of those who agreed to help are federal employees who said they shared other forms of government identification when passing through airport security.
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However, those individuals each said they shared their state-issued driver's licenses later that day when renting vehicles at their respective destinations, and that both rented their cars from
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Hertz.
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After finding a note in my calendar for the day of my June 2025 flight, reminding me to bring my passport, says Brian, I remembered that I also never actually shared my driver's license when I went through security at Reagan National Airport on that day because I did not yet have a real ID.
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A security-enhanced driver's license that's now requires.
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required by the Transportation Security Administration, TSA, for all domestic travel.
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He says instead, I showed my TSA a TSA agent my government issued US passport.
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He says, Here's where it gets interesting.
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I was able to find my mother's driver's license in this service as well, and the timestamps for her images are just a few seconds apart from mine.
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