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[–] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I'd love to hear some informed commentary on the legality of this, if it's legal, it's surely an oversight in the law.

Edit : just to be clear, I'm talking about creating the ID, rather than using it.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Of course it's not legal. This is called identity theft.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Using the ID, sure. But what about providing the service?

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Depends.

    You can argue that it's basically art/political speech. You've done it to draw attention to flaws in the approach and to highlight how ineffectual the current system is, and that if you actually wanted to do make fake IDs you'd take a much less high-profile approach. As such, there's no actual criminal intent required.

    Don't know if a judge would buy it though.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    On the criminal side, It’s identity fraud, and also an offence under the Misuse of Computers Act, gaining access to a system unauthorisedly. Civilly, it’s almost certainly a violation of the ToS.

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