Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Driver Licenses Counterfeited

Fake ID cards like Arizona DLs have recently been showing up in places like Berkeley bars. These "fake ids are look just as good or better than the real ones," according to Boyle, a manager of a bar that considers himself an expert on ID identification. Purchased online for less that $200 for two DLs, almost anyone could get one if they so desired.Although teens only use these IDs to get into bars and buy alcoholic beverages, these very realistic ideas could theoretically be used for much more dastardly deeds. For domestic flights, the only ID check is a cursory glace at your driver license before allowing you to get past TSA security. If these IDs are indeed so realistic, one could use it to board airplanes, perform fraud or basically anything else. So what should the government do about this? Perform extensive checks on all IDs and increase the time mostly harmless citizens stand annoyed in line? Check each package arriving from China for fake IDs? Can anything be done to prevent serious issues with fake IDs without significant tradeoffs somewhere? Is it worth it (in the minds of most people)?

1 comment:

Lexi Cooperstein said...

Although fake IDs are very easy to maintain and they could potentially be used for far more terrible things than simply underaged kids using them to attain alcohol, as of now, I do not think that in the minds of most people that it is worth significant tradeoffs such as checking each and every package arriving from China. This would not be in the best interest for business that order their supplies from China because it would significantly slow down business and trade especially because China is one of the US's top countries from which it receives imports.
I agree with Kore, it is really hard to say what to do to control and prevent possible fraud and if it is even worth it.