What if someone in a government agency just started printing birth certificates and social security cards for everyone? How would anyone know the difference? Like fake IDs on a mass scale.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    A county administrator could go rogue and start issuing birth certificates to random adults, but they’d quickly be found out. Then it’s easy to spot the fakes like “All Hazard County birth certs issued between 2025-04-01 and 2025-04-20 are sus.“

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      4 days ago

      How would they be found out, though? When was the last time someone asked for your birth certificate?