Harmon Seaver wrote:
Hmm, seems my DL is already out of date. WI is switching to a new form of barcode:
<<< 2-D barcode >>>
Looks like other states are doing the same thing. So much for erasing the mag strip. But I suppose it would be fairly easy to paint something over the barcode like some plastic disolving solvent, making it unreadable.
NYS has had these for years. (State motto: always leading in police technology.) My DL's barcode suffered just the sort of mishap you describe---solvent over the plastic, discoloring it and making it unscannable. I've caught a lot of crap from pigs who try to scan it into the little boxes in their oinkmobiles, but no official censure or fine has come down. YMMV. SRF -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato