Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

I haven’t given it much thought, but I’m beginning to think that identify theft couldn’t be all that hard. :-) When Crissy and I applied for a marriage license the other day and we needed our driver licenses and “proof of Social Security Number”. Since we didn’t have our SSN cards on us (who does?), we went to the Social Security Administration to get the requisite proof.

At that office, all we had to do was show our Driver’s Licenses and answer some questions to “prove” our identity. The questions were fairly easy like, “When’s your birthday?” or “Where were you born?” Once that was done, we had the option to have a new Social Security card sent to the address of our choice or just get notarized statements with our SSN and names on them.

That doesn’t seem like the most secure system at all. Hopefully, if we do end up with a national ID card system, it is a little more secure that our current system.