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Disco Matt:
I don't really see "txt spk" as newspeak, it's just annoying and makes my eyes hurt!  :lol:

Newspeak is alive and well and growing like mildew in publicly-funded bodies. The one that really annoys me is the word "issue". No, you mean problem, or question, or matter depending on the context. Magazines have issues, people have problems!

The Dilbert cartoons had an excellent idea for "buzzword bingo", to be played when dealing with managers who are seemingly unable to communicate in plain English.

dxmedia:

--- Quote from: Disco Matt on February 02, 2010, 08:59:00 ---I don't really see "txt spk" as newspeak, it's just annoying and makes my eyes hurt!  :lol:

Newspeak is alive and well and growing like mildew in publicly-funded bodies. The one that really annoys me is the word "issue". No, you mean problem, or question, or matter depending on the context. Magazines have issues, people have problems!

The Dilbert cartoons had an excellent idea for "buzzword bingo", to be played when dealing with managers who are seemingly unable to communicate in plain English.

--- End quote ---


Actually you mean incident not issue ;)

A problem is a reoccuring incident with a known solution.



I'll get my coat...........

datalas:
As has been happily pointed out, the ID card isn't particularly secure, but does contain secure information

I've seen the argument that it contains biometric information so it's secure used, but I can put all my private details in a bucket and leave it outside, just because it contains "private" information doesn't make it secure.

What it does mean is that if you get your details stolen or cloned, you're stuffed.  Forget changing your bank account details, it'll be a cornea transplant and leg lengthening surgery or nothing :)

Sider:
I shall get flamed for this, but what the heck>>>

The data is not just stored in the card, but there's a backup on a database, in case of the card being "cloned" with false data, all you would need to do is apply for the original data to sort out your problems.

I bet you still use checks, yet they are much more susceptible to fraud than any other kind of payment method.

And lastly (for now), I shall point out that in Spain we have had compulsory ID cards since 1944, and that identity theft in Spain is almost unheard of. Hummm... Go figure.

Disco Matt:
New Scientist recently had an article about a group of security researchers who managed to crack the "touch" card readers used for things like Oyster cards or the new Barclaycard that apparently works on a water slide. Their suggestions included that anti-capitalist protesters could build a box that would fill the cards of those who walked past it, then hide a handful of them in shopping areas.

If frankly rather stupid scammers can rip off card details with a box they stick on the front of a cashpoint, it wouldn't take them long to build something to interrogate an ID card that's carried past it...

Every government IT project in this country seems to fall victim to an approach of paying whoever shows you the shiniest product, even if it turns out to be utterly hopeless and fails miserably to be ready to use on time or on budget. In the 1980s we had some of the best programmers in the world. It's not a lack of brains, it's a lack of government willingness to support them and the repeated failure to value solid, reliable contents over a shiny cover.

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