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doozer writes:
John Rumm wrote:
Rather than preventing identity theft, it will simply make it easier to
do and much harder to detect.

If you integrate the system into all facets of daily life, then far from
preventing terrorism, it will simply become a new target for it.

It would be one of the largest and most complex IT projects the
government has ever taken on. They do not have an impressive record it
this arena.

Actually, they have a very impressive record -- of completely
screwing up every IT project they've attempted, together with
going massively over budget.

ID cards has already failed, because they haven't started by
trying to identify the problem they want to solve -- they've
started with a solution and are trying to make up a problem
which it fits. Now where have we seen that before?

I have been trying to think of ways to disrupt the distribution of ID
cards once Tony forces them through (lets face it the battle was lost
before it even started). The best idea I can come up with is to pretend
you have a medical condition that stops you from being able to sit still
long enough for them to get good bioinformatic data. For instance if
they have retina scans just keep looking the other way when they tell
you to look into the camera. If it's finger prints just move your finger
as it scans.

A day's plastering with no barrier cream, and you'll have no
finger prints for a couple of weeks. Bricklaying is probably
equally effective.

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Andrew Gabriel