Reply #12: Actually, whatever they come up with will make identity theft EASIER. [View All]

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Why? Because the people who propose this so-called "fraud proof" ID system will blindly accept their wonderful system over any evidence to the contrary.

Also, any system they come up with will probably have verification data on it in digital format to make it even easier to provide an identity thief with the information needed to make counterfeit ID's that will be blindly accepted as valid because it is believed to be "foolproof".

The kind of systems they propose can be defeated, and any system that would be "foolproof" would necessarily invade the privacy of honest citizens, and set the stage for the implementation of a totalitarian police state.

After all of the problems with electronic voting, computer viruses, worms, and trojans, back door hacks, computer fraud, and all the other mischief that can be achieved with computers, you would think that there would be a healthy skepticism about using computer "solutions" for such a serious issue.

There is NO such thing as a "fraud-proof" ID card.

Beyond this fact, their proposed solution assumes that employers who hired illegal immigrants were duped by the immigrants into believing they were legal because of wonderfully made faked ID. Yeah, right. Employers were duped into hiring illegal immigrants who cleverly forged identification papers as they were illegally entering the country from Mexico or Guatemala or wherever.

Heaven help us from "techno-idiots"!