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How can you steal an identity and travel in today's world? There are only a few countries that still make passport which are not biometric.
by csomar 5y ago
How can you steal an identity and travel in today's world? There are only a few countries that still make passport which are not biometric.
- mrsuprawsm 5y agoApparently it's quite easy if you have a passport from a country considered wealthy (e.g. EU). >According to document sellers, it is impossible to fake a working biometric chip, but at many border crossings officials checking passports simply ignore those that don’t work, waving the passport holder through. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/revealed-how-fake-passports-allow-is-members-to-enter-europe-and-us https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/revealed-how-f...
- csomar 5y agoWow. So they collected all this data and complicated all these lives and in the end... the system doesn't work?
- mindslight 5y agoObviously. The authoritarian impulse is rooted in control, not ultimate effectiveness.
- donnythecroc 5y agoHe has a pilots licence. There is a podcast about this that explains it well but basically it's not hard with that kind of money.