You realize that unless you have a trust path via keys that you've signed (preferably by meeting the people holding them) that that verification isn't verifying

You realize that unless you have a trust path via keys that you've signed (preferably by meeting the people holding them) that that verification isn't verifying much, right? It's pretty easy to create a key that has that key id (since it's only the last few hex digits of the full 40 digit fingerprint) and the user id is freeform. If you don't believe it's easy to pick your own key id, check the keyservers for the number of keys with DEADBEEF as their key id ;)