At 1:07 PM -0400 10/23/06, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
What I've never understood is, that, how a gov't issue ID (for the purposes of allowing entry) is of any use whatsoever.
It's not as if someone is doing a instand background check to know if the person is a criminal, or wanted, or whatever. It's trivial to forge a gov't ID.
I'll disagree; it's rather challenging to create a state drivers license or state ID card which will also pass third-party database verification. Hence, a requirement for such an ID supplied in advance with enough time to verify it provides a very solid basis of identification. (As smb noted, it says nothing at all about authorization, but that's a different problem which one can address after you have a high enough certainty for identification). /John