It takes relatively little cosmetic surgery to get around facial recognition technology. Distinguishing faces is an objectively hard task, and shifting the corners of your eyes and mouth a centimetre further away from the tip of your nose is probably enough to confound it.
I reckon you could totally pull a contemporary Day of the Jackal (only preferably without Richard Gere this time). It'd probably make sense to produce a completely fraudulent birth certificate based on known details rather than request a copy from the GRO, since they then don't have a copy of the request.
I do have a special method of adopting a fraudulent identity, which I've been cultivating for a while as a bit of a mental exercise. I doubt very much that many people who aren't me could do it, though.
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Date: 2011-09-13 11:12 am (UTC)I reckon you could totally pull a contemporary Day of the Jackal (only preferably without Richard Gere this time). It'd probably make sense to produce a completely fraudulent birth certificate based on known details rather than request a copy from the GRO, since they then don't have a copy of the request.
I do have a special method of adopting a fraudulent identity, which I've been cultivating for a while as a bit of a mental exercise. I doubt very much that many people who aren't me could do it, though.