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than my employer would hope.
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Although anyone could get a
forged ID card if they knew who to talk to, they can fool a CA
almost as easily as they can fool you. Just look at the people
who work for the TSA; they check ID cards all day long and
quickly become bored with the routine.
Of course, you won’t be able to verify all state-issued ID
cards. If I meet someone who uses a Tasmanian passport, I’m
going to hesitate over signing his key unless he has some other
method of proving his identity. (Tasmania is a state within Aus-
tralia, and doesn’t issue its own passports. If you didn’t know
this, don’t blindly trust government-issued ...