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glowFX
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Do you think it would be possible, to create a second real identity (acknowledged by government) by using the real name, but switching some or even just one of the letters with a unicode look-alike character?

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    lots of people have the same exact name

    it is unknown how a person is represented inside "government". social insurance / social security numbers seem to be relevant even though when they were made it was explicitly said they shouldn't be used for authentication, but now they serve as a sort of password only you're supposed to know (except you have to give it to your employer lol, and MLMs and scam jobs exist so make that make sense)
  • 4
    If the name already exists then they will use your birthdate and birth location and will know that you are the same person.

    Your name is not your identity.
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    @Lensflare funny, I kinda think about my electronic services like that. If I would get hacked or whatever, I'm like meh, it's not my identity. I'm also not someone crying for privacy all the time. I just acknowledge nothing. Criminals, even when they smile with two tumbs up in front of a security camera, they still deny. It's a kinda game.
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    @Lensflare I also live in Germany but was born in a small village in a foreign country. Back then, when I requested a passport, the women behind the desk asked me how to spell the name of the village. I didn't know, so I just came up with a spelling. Now I know a few other people from that village - it's completely differently spelled in their passport.

    Also birthday is something nobody can prove. I can come up with a slight variation or pick another one.

    I think the trickiest part is to make someone believe that you lost every document and you are not in "the system" yet.
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