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Re:Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026 by StephenHerlihyy on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @01:58PM (#47429044)
I had heard of that but it wasn’t until you posted the link that I actually read through it.

My question after actually reading it though is simple - how does it prevent fraud? Like you just need GPS and a selfie to verify. No bank account required! Since the nominal case is undocumented you don’t have ground truth to check against. What is stopping someone from using an eSIM, OpenClaw, and an emulator from self-deporting thousands of virtual persona at $2600 profit

It just seems poorly considered. I don’t know if they really thought this through.

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Re:Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026 by K0balt on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:24AM (#47438168)
The object is to create metrics that are plausible (or more specifically for which the knowledge of falsification is plausibly deniable), not to actually self deport people (although that could be viewed as a desirable side effect).

We can be sure that the weakness in this scheme is being exploited, since it was designed to maximise metrics, not results.

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