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Tech blog "The Boy Genius Report" reports that Home Depot has lost a laptop in Massachusetts containing personal information, including Social Security numbers, for 10,000 of its employees.

Meanwhile, the Providence Journal reports that two Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles employees have been arrested for allegedly falsifying ID cards for drug dealers.

I don't mean to take advantage of unfortunate and problematic situations, but all of this helps make our point that the coming Real ID internal passport could be a nationwide bonanza for identity thieves when there is a security breach -- and that terrorists might still be able to get fake IDs, if they even need them.