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iamnothereyesterday at 9:31 PM1 replyview on HN

All it will do is create a new low risk black market job. Someone will manufacture and sell bulk identities like they do fake social accounts.


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joshuamortonyesterday at 10:12 PM

> Someone will manufacture and sell bulk identities

How? You've now moved the level of sophistication required from "someone runs some bots on the facebook website" to "someone is now committing complex fraud against a government".

If the only people who can run scams are state sponsored, that's still vastly better than the status quo.

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