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Google's 'ID Validation' Is a Joke, But Not Funny

Posted by timothy on from the your-voice-is-your-password-so-yell dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I was curious about the whole profile reporting and ID validation process on Google+ so I decided to do a little experimental work to find out just what is involved. Answer: very little which could be called rigor." Tease: this story involves a form of I.D. only slightly less funny than the 409-eater with a passport in the name of James Tiberius Kirk.

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  1. Re:Account verification by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doing this kind of thing is a breeze in Belgium. Everyone has an ID card with chip containing a couple of certificates on it. A site can use these to validate you say who you say you are by checking through a government server. Ebay does account verification in this way. Quick, painless.

    Why that's communist! We would never do that here!

    Why do you hate America?

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  2. Re:Account verification by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do you hate America?

    Because of your freedoms, obviously ;-)

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