The standard ID
badge is the size of a credit card and has a photo of the badge owner that
usually measures about an inch square.
It would take the eyes of an eagle for a security officer or co-worker
to match the photo with the person wearing the badge at a distance of five or
six feet. I am reminded of my time at
CIA Headquarters many years ago. To
quell occasional boredom, some “techies” got a little frisky and counterfeited
a CIA badge. They inserted a photograph
of a bunny with pink ears and labeled it Agent 007. It was two weeks of daily use before the miscreant
was finally caught by a CIA security officer.