I'm straight-up not comfortable uploading a government document online. Bite my shiny metal toosh, Microsoft.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
306 points (93.2% liked)
Technology
58012 readers
3055 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yeah, but that's the point, with universal secure ID all of those actions require showing your universal secure ID. You can't just give people enough information that sounds or is legit and get a loan, you need to provide your ID and have it verified.
And hey, if somebody that holds a copy of your ID leaks it you're only at risk for a bit of time, because these things expire and each new one you get looks different. It's very hard and not worth it to forge these for that reason, and if somebody went to the trouble of doing that you could easily prove it doesn't match the original you hold.
Fraud and identity theft obviously still exist, but it normally involves getting older people to sign things they didn't mean to or getting people to share their information through social engineering. But just finding your info online and generating enough debt to create a massive problem? That seems hard and reversible.