post related to my last question about Deutschland-Job-Ticket and avoiding google, a company the transportation authority seems to have a deal with.
Some of you have suggested I download a pkpass file. Great!, let me download something so I can save it to my phone!
Nope, the google icon I pasted in my first post (see here as well) simply redirects me to a google service to CREATE A F&#(#&% ACCOUNT WITH THEM!!
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I just learned what a pkpass file because some of you seem to know this technology, but ain't it an apple technology?
Second question is, how widespread is the use of pkpass in Germany for travel documents and for android devices? I don't know if most of the people answering this question are people not residing in Germany.
And yet another question, if I send an email asking the transportation authority what kind of technology they use for travel documents, if they provide any alternative to google or any way to download the ticket in either pkpass format or any other format that doesn't require me to give my personal data to a data grabber, if they provide plastic travel cards to people that won't allow their data to be used by google, what are the chances they won't ignore me or outright laugh at me?
When I cross the Atlantic I pdf or screenshot the plane ticket. Never had a problem. Why can't this be like that?
The explanation is easy: Public transport has lots of tight regulations. The use of pkpass files is not in these rules, therefore nobody uses it directly.
The use of screenshots or PDFs is not secure. Fraud would be way too easy if they allowed it. Airplane tickets are an exception: because there are so many passport checks at airports, forged tickets are rare.
If I remember correctly, pkpass is a Apple standard. So maybe you can import the file into a wallet app. Then it may become usable for you. But that's just a wild guess.
This makes no sense. How does the train ticket identify the rightful owner without checking their id? Instead of a screenshot, couldn't a person just download someone elses ticket in the app? How are these two different?
You are asking how the ticket inspectors are doing their job. Well, I guess some are doing it more thoroughly, others... less.