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Originally Posted by JustinD
I have to understand Steve's position here. The likely level of security for this documentation would be at an amateur's level. A low level hacker would likely be able to access if in the odd case they were unlikely to buy access to the information from a low paid security or data employee of the event. Thus providing not just names and photos, but home addresses of thousands of collectors that more than likely have collectables on premise. Let's be realistic, without documenting the license information in some way what does it really do at all? Are the weekend employees at the door of the National going to be able to memorize the information of 10s of thousands of visitors? It would need to be on a database for reference or it's complete waste of time...and that is a goldmine for information sales. The promoters would sell that attendee list to every auction house in the hobby the next week and then leave another million security holes.
I am sure I'll get massacred for even bringing it up, but if a huge percentage of the country is voting to state that simply asking for a federal or state photo ID to prove you can legally vote or even are who you say you are is somehow way over the line. What is the slightest chance that you can legally ask and document identification to enter a baseball card show if challenged?
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Considering that tickets, at least to the National, are bought via CC and have names attached to them, this point is wildly overblown fear and elaborate.
Additionally people are petrified of handing over an ID to match names on the ticket but will readily do the same to purchase alcohol, pickup tickets from will call at sporting or other events, visit most buildings / workplaces (at least in most businesses and buildings nowadays). Additionally any ticket bought ahead would have billing attached to it. All someone checking ID needs to do is mark the ticket buyer there and that their tickets have been picked up, they don't need to input all ID info again.
Here is a newsflash, the paranoia of people to not want to hand over ID to enter a show is actually funny. People use ID virtually daily to do hundreds of different things. You'll show ti to prove who you are to fly, drive, buy alcohol, cigarettes. You'll tap a phone or CC reader with a chip card in 2.5 seconds without thinking twice. Guess what, ALL that data gets stored and is identifiable in the exact same manner. Also there is far more sensitive data embedded in both those devices.
If someone wants to steal they are going to do their best to do so, using due diligence and not flaunting big dollar items or large blocks of cash unnecessarily is a big key to all of this.
Of course, if your expensive pieces and big dollar items are in a display case for sale you're going to be openly displaying what you have to anyone walking by. Insure yourself accordingly,