How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier)

Re:How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier) by maxklein on Thursday September 04, 2008 @10:14AM (#294794)

How do you fake your photograph though? All these fake identity scams fall through as soon as you have to show a photograph of yourself. And considering how good software is getting at recongizing faces, soon it will be near to impossible.

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Re:How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier) by aneesh on Thursday September 04, 2008 @10:30AM (#294803)

> "All these fake identity scams fall through as soon as you have to show a photograph of yourself."

Because no one's ever used a fake photo ID to, say, get into a bar.

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Re:How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier) by staunch on Thursday September 04, 2008 @06:26PM (#295276)

How many people would get into the bar if US Customs was running the door? Certainly some would, but probably 98% less. Most of the time the reason fake IDs work is because bouncers just don't care. As long as you give them plausible deniability they're happy enough to let you pay them money.

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Re:How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity (Bruce Schneier) by DougBTX on Thursday September 04, 2008 @08:24PM (#295367)

   How do you fake your photograph though?

RTFA, you just don't get any photo ID for the identity until you sell that identity to someone - who you then take a photo of.

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