The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by emchammer on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:12PM (#42923215)

I would rather show up at the local post office in order to verify my identity. Such a matter common in another country where I have lived.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by eadler on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:29PM (#42923470)

This is starting to happen. I had to do this for NIH recently.

Or it would be happening absent the recent chaos.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by threeseed on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:53PM (#42925127)

I can't imagine many people agreeing with you here.

You need to be (a) able to walk and drive, (b) in driving distance to a post office and (c) able to work around the post office's opening hours and (d) willing to waste the time to drive/line up etc.

Or you can spend less than a minute to upload a photo of your passport.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by ceejayoz on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:41PM (#42925705)

I think the objection is more that ID.me should be ID.gov.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by amluto on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:15AM (#42930559)

Which is great until someone impersonates you by spoofing a photo of you that satisfies “liveness” detection. It’s a lot harder to AI up an animated image in person at a post office.

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