alt Hacker NewsRemember the xerox-scandal years back, that invalidated officially scanned documents. You already life in a world where "scanned before" means you can legally challenge the validity of a document.
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ryukoposting • yesterday at 3:40 PM
Hah, scan-dal.
mindslight • yesterday at 3:07 PM
I am pretty sure I was bitten by this bug, or a similar bug, on an IRA transfer form that I uploaded to a bank. On the scan that I uploaded, one digit in the account number was a clean "5", but the customer service person said it looked like a good clean "6". I presume their document management system was an outcropping of a system originally set up for dealing with faxes, and used that or a similar compression algorithm.
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Is this the scandal to which you are referring?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23588202