diff --git a/runtimes/google/rt/security.go b/runtimes/google/rt/security.go
index 09afd27..f3666c7 100644
--- a/runtimes/google/rt/security.go
+++ b/runtimes/google/rt/security.go
@@ -110,7 +110,12 @@
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	defer f.Close()
-	return vsecurity.LoadIdentity(f)
+	// TODO(ashankar): Hack. See comments in vsecurity.LoadIdentity.
+	hack, err := isecurity.NewPrivateID("hack", nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return vsecurity.LoadIdentity(f, hack)
 }
 
 func (rt *vrt) connectToAgent() (security.PrivateID, error) {
diff --git a/security/util.go b/security/util.go
index 470fe4c..0a8f9bb 100644
--- a/security/util.go
+++ b/security/util.go
@@ -22,8 +22,16 @@
 
 // LoadIdentity reads a PrivateID from r, assuming that it was written using
 // SaveIdentity.
-func LoadIdentity(r io.Reader) (security.PrivateID, error) {
+//
+// TODO(ashankar): The extra arguments is a hack that is needed to keep identities
+// generated before the "veyron.io" code move working with binaries built after.
+// This hack should go away when we make the backward-incompatible change to the
+// new security API anyway.
+func LoadIdentity(r io.Reader, hack ...security.PrivateID) (security.PrivateID, error) {
 	var id security.PrivateID
+	if len(hack) > 0 {
+		id = hack[0]
+	}
 	if err := vom.NewDecoder(base64.NewDecoder(base64.URLEncoding, r)).Decode(&id); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/tools/identity/test.sh b/tools/identity/test.sh
index e7e76de..7f65ca2 100755
--- a/tools/identity/test.sh
+++ b/tools/identity/test.sh
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
   # To regenerate testdata:
   # identity generate "root" >testdata/root.id
   # identity generate "other" | VEYRON_IDENTITY=testdata/root.id identity bless - "blessed" >testdata/blessed.id
-  local -r TESTDATA_DIR="${VEYRON_ROOT}/veyron.io/veyron/veyron/go/src/veyron/tools/identity/testdata"
+  local -r TESTDATA_DIR="${VEYRON_ROOT}/veyron/go/src/veyron.io/veyron/veyron/tools/identity/testdata"
   GOT=$(VEYRON_IDENTITY="${TESTDATA_DIR}/root.id" ./identity print | awk '/Name/ {print $3}')
   WANT="root"
   if [ "${GOT}" != "${WANT}" ]; then