Duluth man wants to expand use of his device that spots fake IDs
September 11, 2011 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Ten years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, airport security technologies still are evolving. One new device, designed in Duluth and manufactured in Pequot Lakes, Minn., now is used in about 40 smaller airports in the country and would be used in all of them if its creator had his way.
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What happens when the terrorists have gotten their drivers licenses from actual state sources?
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“I don’t know why the TSA hasn’t mandated it for all its airports,” he said. “It’s a common-sense check, and no other machine does what it does.”–Because “Common Sense” and TSA, let alone the whole “Homeland Security ” BS do not go hand-in-hand.
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This is just a hunch, but when I spent most of the last two summers in downtown Vancouver, BC, there’s an area kind of like Canal Park with cutesy shops and pipe stores (like Last Place in Duluth). Anyway outside there’s this big sign on their window with a picture of a kid on a Michigan drivers license saying DOB: 7/16/92 x’ed out with 7/16/90 filled in. The guys who make them (this is a big assumption) I think they make them in Hong Kong, send them to Vancouver, then from there they are redirected to the States. By calling them ‘novelty id cards’ it’s apparently not a crime. All the kid has to do is fill out a form, send in one of those passport photos from Walgreens and go to this site http://app-id.com/
And voila, a whole world awaits. I’m curious as to how realistic these things are. It’d be a good site for the Duluth bouncers to check out; this website is in every alternative weekly in Vancouver. I’m sure there are kids here using it..not to encourage it, just be aware of it. And again, is it legal? What’s a ‘novelty ID’ when the holograms look very realistic?
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A novelty ID would be an ID that the state of Minnesota has not collected any money from. Just a hunch.
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