Submitted 1 year ago by Dadifer@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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.
For “everyone” meaning…? Part of the whole “undocumented” problem is that theyre un-documented. How can we issue forms for people we don’t even know?
Advertising? Even if only word-of-mouth.
It would have to be pretty secretive. But it’s not like there aren’t other services out there that do similar things illegally under cover of anonymity. (Silk Road, anyone?)
Audit trails are a thing.
…not with this administration…
There will be as people cover their own asses when asked to do dodgy things.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year 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.“