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This reminds me of back in the day when someone broke into the Ohio DMV and stole the machine that made the IDs and starting making exact "fake" IDs.
by post_break 10y ago
This reminds me of back in the day when someone broke into the Ohio DMV and stole the machine that made the IDs and starting making exact "fake" IDs.
- scurvy 10y agoBefore the days of prevalent computers and searchable databases, one would just take someone else's information to the DMV and get a real ID with their info.
- tyingq 10y agoIn the 70-80's, we made them with colored stock paper, hand-drawn seals, and rub on letters and border lines. You would make them much larger than the real deal, then take photos and reduce the size. That masked any imperfections. The back side was typically just text, so we could photocopy that. Insert the photo, and find a high end laminating machine. Oh, and fake a neighboring state ID so it's less critical to have it perfect.
- curun1r 10y agoYou didn't even need to use someone else's information, you could just use your own with a different DoB. Growing up, my "fake" ID was my passport. When I applied for it, they read my birth year wrong (I guess my 7 wasn't too legible and they thought it was a 2). I could barely pass for my own age, let alone 5 years older, but it worked most of the time. All my friends ended up using the flaw that I'd inadvertently exposed when their fakes got confiscated. It was just cheaper and more reliable to use an actual government-issued ID.
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoI think this is why Indiana quit printing ID's in the county offices. They are now printed in a central location in Indianapolis and arrive in the mail.
- ci5er 10y agoThat may be part of it, but in Texas (where they do the same thing), they use the mail-back as a way to (partially) verify your physical address.