DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline

Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by ghaff on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:08PM (#33873250)

What places requiring government-issued photo ID will accept a social security card? Sure, you can social engineer lots of things, but I'm very skeptical that presenting a social security card in place of a driver's license or passport will generally pass muster.

Though don't actually know as I haven't had one in decades.

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Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by Godel_unicode on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:16PM (#33873975)

You added an artificial constraint by specifying photo ID. I never claimed that a social security card is a photo ID because clearly it isn’t.

You do have one, or if you insist you were issued one, you just don’t possess it.

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Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by ghaff on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:21PM (#33874040)

Any place requesting a government issued ID expects a photo ID.

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Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by Godel_unicode on Monday December 05, 2022 @08:24PM (#33874646)

The state of West Virginia will give you a (non-RealID) drivers license with a social security card and 2 pieces of mail. Card to prove your identity and mail to prove that name went with a W.Va address.

At one point the lifelock guy had something like 200 W.Va licenses since in the mid-aughts they didn’t actually check to see if that SSN had a license already.

W.Va license gets you a passport. Passport gets you anything you want.

The only thing standing between you and full-blown has-a-passport identity theft is your Social Security Card.

Edit: You can intuitively prove that everywhere doesn’t require a photo ID because some piece of ID has to come first.

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