interesting-people message

Subject: IP: who are you?

From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
To: ip <ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 06:12:17 -0400

Title: approve:ggfarber who are you?

This article shows why our whole ID system is broken and why ones identification is so easy to fake.

Ps a citizen can use the same tricks

Foreigners Obtain Social Security ID With Fake Papers <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/national/20FRAU.html?todaysheadlines>

Federal officials have not found a way to search immigration records to prevent foreigners from illegally obtaining Social Security numbers, federal investigators say.