[metmom]

That is also why governments do things like take fingerprints, issue biometric drivers licenses, passports, and check the continuing document trail looking for things that are out of place.

And none of that can be falsified, now can it?

Like for people in a witness protection program for example. Right?

And just who WAS Shakespeare anyway?

[donmeaker]

Of course it can be falsified. Falsifying all of it is hard.

Falsifying your old service records previous passports, old drivers licenses when copies of documents are securely retained by by the government is hard for you to do, but possible.

It is probably better than accepting everything at face value, in a world where evil men seek advantage.