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Old Mar 4, 2015 | 4:15 pm
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Originally Posted by petaluma1
I would think that all it would take is a skilled make-up artist, together with some minor plastic surgery, to defeat FRT.
Possible, more to avoid a FRT match than to achieve one. That said, extensive facial plastic surgery has been known to result in the death of some with a history of fraudulent ID use. And FRT's margins are such that it's well possible for look-alikes to fool authoriites as long as the doc is for a very close look-alike.

I do find the governmental obsession about ID and biometrics use at airports of entry so very interesting. While it's driven by concerns to mainly stop asylum-seekers, refugees and economic migrants at airports, packaged with a desire to interdict the travels of terrorists and various other serious transnational criminals, surface transport routes can be rather readily utilized to travel and enter without documentation despite the authorities' wishes.
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