It wasn’t that hard. Spend a couple hours in the children’s section of a cemetery in some midsize Midwest city, and you’d have a list of names of babies, who most likely died right in that very county. Request a copy of a birth certificate from the local county offices. Use that to apply for a Social Security Card, and use that and the birth certificate to get a driver’s license.
Most of it has to be done through the mail, so it will take a while, but that’s the worst of it.
Can’t do that today, though. They’ve locked down birth certificates pretty well, it would be hard to get your mitts on one. These days they tend to just steal someone else’s identity, and live parallel lives with someone else.
Yeah, that was life before the Internet. You actually had to do stuff. You couldn’t just click a few keys, and get what you want.
Still, to create an entirely new identity, and disappear? Today, you couldn’t do it all. A little legwork and a few months of waiting for mail isn’t that much to ask.
Yeah, that was life before the Internet. You actually had to do stuff. You couldn’t just click a few keys, and get what you want.
Literally, nobody said that. And you’re also making my point that it would be a huge pain in the ass, not “easy“.
Still, to create an entirely new identity, and disappear? Today, you couldn’t do it all. A little legwork and a few months of waiting for mail isn’t that much to ask.
I wouldn’t know, and that’s not what we’re discussing here. But, once again, you’ve made my point for me that it wouldn’t be “easy“, it would be a gigantic pain in the ass.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
It wasn’t that hard. Spend a couple hours in the children’s section of a cemetery in some midsize Midwest city, and you’d have a list of names of babies, who most likely died right in that very county. Request a copy of a birth certificate from the local county offices. Use that to apply for a Social Security Card, and use that and the birth certificate to get a driver’s license.
Most of it has to be done through the mail, so it will take a while, but that’s the worst of it.
Can’t do that today, though. They’ve locked down birth certificates pretty well, it would be hard to get your mitts on one. These days they tend to just steal someone else’s identity, and live parallel lives with someone else.
homes@piefed.world 14 hours ago
You just described to me how it’s extremely difficult and requires a lot of effort.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
Yeah, that was life before the Internet. You actually had to do stuff. You couldn’t just click a few keys, and get what you want.
Still, to create an entirely new identity, and disappear? Today, you couldn’t do it all. A little legwork and a few months of waiting for mail isn’t that much to ask.
homes@piefed.world 12 hours ago
Literally, nobody said that. And you’re also making my point that it would be a huge pain in the ass, not “easy“.
I wouldn’t know, and that’s not what we’re discussing here. But, once again, you’ve made my point for me that it wouldn’t be “easy“, it would be a gigantic pain in the ass.