Undeading yourself in some societies ain’t trivial either. In others it’s nigh on impossible.
India has/had a loophole that scammers use to declare someone dead and steal their property.
See: Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_D...
Source? With biometric identity system Aadhaar and 2FA auth for everything I find this hard to believe.
If someone does that- creates a fake 'death certificate' in my name via publicly accessible information and it actually goes through, how do you even go about trying to fix that? is this even fixable?
Re:Samsung Recent Security Incident
by AstralStorm on Saturday September 03, 2022 @03:55AM
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Here in Poland they would need that person's ID number and a fake signature plus data of an accredited doctor.
(Both of which is easiest done by compromising a doctor fully. They have access to ID database.)
This is very close to "stealing" your identity — in that you yourself don't have the ability to use your identity any more in any useful way, because your identity is now (legally) dead.
Then again, they don't possess it after that point, either. So maybe it's more like "identity destruction" or "identity defacement."