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Just as easy as ever to acquire fake passports

The quest to create a passport that can't be forged or faked - mirrored at the state level for driver licenses via the Real ID Act - has turned out to be a quixotic and expensive one.After 9/11, the US revamped passports and passed the Real ID Act attempting to require states (many have balked) to enhance supposed security measures to prevent fraudulently obtaining identification. And a report issued last week by the Government Accountability Office informs us that after billions spent on security "upgrades," the feds still fail to detect most actually fraudulent attempts to obtain a passport. According to the report summary:GAO was asked to perform additional proactive testing of State's passport issuance process to determine if it continues to be vulnerable to fraud...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 01, 2010 (boomark / email).