>>>Basically, there could be a verification check on each new account added.
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>>Now, that is really my question - how can anything entered from a keyboard anywhere on the Internet be verified? How can a person really be truely identified? Are we going to need Smartcards to login?
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>Some sites are sending an e-mail and then do confirmation. E.g. if the person doesn't respond on e-mail, it's fake.

And if I just grab a quick Web email from Yahoo? Are you sure it is me? It is who I say I am, and nothing else - you still have no verification that I am who I say or any of the personal info is accurate. I know, we're drifting a bit here, but it is all the same problem. When I create an account, the UT just accepts what I give it. Whether it be Rome, NY or Rome, Italy. The best you can achieve is some spell checking or case correcting - and you might be wrong in that. Deruyter, DeRuyter, De Ruyter - it's 15 miles from me, and I'm not sure...