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Moral of the story - tech co's and gov id requirements are evil and have no basis in actual security.
Now that peoples data has been exposed, they are susceptible to id theft. So, how does a site or gov deal with that?
There suddenly are over 9000 Stan Smith's on the site. Weird.
Well, guys, for the safety of... .. (Murmuring... We're using the kids as justification this time or terrorism... Kids. OK.) the children, we will require a blood sample to verify your genetic code.
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