But some clever students found if you have enough unofficial documents with the same information, people will treat it as the same as an official document. Now, the problem with this is that falsifying official state and national identification documents is a crime in most places and in some places even just carrying false identification may be a crime. Because the identification system is weak. And we use those documents to get other documents.īut what if we don't? What happens if we start with a fake document and use it to get other fake documents? Can we get official documents with enough fake documents? We get official documents and are told this is who we are. We like to think that identity is permanent.
This article is an excerpt from a book we are working on about cybersecurity for college students.