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News Track Security Holes Fast on the heels of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission report indicating the incidence of identity theft is far greater than the government previously believed, comes a report from the General Accounting Office offering clear evidence how easy it is to obtain fake driver s licenses throughout the U.S. Congressional investigators readily convinced DMV employees to issue official driver s licenses based on information gleaned from false birth certificates, utility bills, and other fraudulent documents. Indeed, these investigators obtained valid licenses from every agency at which they applied. If they were initially turned away by DMV employees spotting problems with the paperwork, the investigators simply left the office, fixed the problem, and reapplied often the same day with success. As far as driver s license issuing is concerned, we re no safer from terrorists than we were before September 11, said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. The FTC survey estimated 3.3 million people were victims of full-blown identity theft in 2002; another 6.7 million were hit by credit card fraud and other account takeovers. Concrete evidence of such security flaws may reopen debate about national identity cards, say privacy experts. ILLUSTRATIONS BY MASAKO EBATA
Communications of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Nov 1, 2003
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