Rush to Put Death Records Online Lets Anyone be 'Killed'

While humorous (getting a death certificate for someone who isn't really dead) the money is in the virtual births. I don't doubt for a minute there are entrepreneurs who use that to create new identities for people or fake dependents (welfare fraud).

Well at least for virtual births, given the trend of fingerprint storage, once the real virtualized baby is of age or otherwise required to submit prints, the other identities are pretty much useless.

Sounds like we're one sweet OS boot screen away from the movie 'Hackers'.

Lots of dead and nonexistent people vote in elections all the time. Come to think of it, this could be a reason that it is so easy to do these things.

&quot;The Baby Harvest: How virtual babies become the future of terrorist financing and money laundering.&quot;<p>Terrorists are killing and selling our babies! Sounds like over-the-top far-right US political rhetoric.