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ID Cards
Disco Matt:
As one blogger put it, anyone trotting out the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" line should be offered the chance to live in a house with glass walls and no curtains. They've nothing to hide, after all... ;)
I already carry photo ID. It's called my driving licence. That has my name, date of birth, and a photo on it. Why is anything else needed?
Yoshi:
Ok,
Quite happily went along today and paid me £30 for it.
I think its a personal choice. If i am happy for them to have the data, which tbh they have access to all of it anyway, then i will sign up - which i did.
dxmedia:
--- Quote from: Yoshi on February 01, 2010, 15:35:46 ---Ok,
Quite happily went along today and paid me £30 for it.
I think its a personal choice. If i am happy for them to have the data, which tbh they have access to all of it anyway, then i will sign up - which i did.
--- End quote ---
It's not 'them' having access to your data, it's anyone else who wants it too !!!
Saffy:
can't remember if this actual story was bogus though the potential risks of RFIDs are a reality and the subject has been done to death at many a hackcon....
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/02/video-hacker-war-drives-san-francisco-cloning-rfid-passports/
dxmedia:
For the ID card to be given to everyone it has to have public key encryption. Private key wont work due to the potential of 60 000 000 keys being needed.
That mean that the encryption on 1 card get's reverse engineered all ID cards can be read by anyone with an RFID scanner.
http://www.gadgets-galore.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=189303
So that card which has all your details on has just been read by the person who walked past you in the street. No contact needed. That person then uploads your information to their card (with their holographic photo on) and they've just become you. New bank account? Don't need several forms of ID, nope just the .gov ID card. Credit cards in your name? Plenty there sir.
When you come to complain, they check their records and they scanned your card. Must be you sir, are you lying sir? What do you mean you don't remember taking out £30 000 of loans sir?
Hope you feel safe now that you've got one.
I'd personally cut my losses on the £30 and cut it into the smallest pieces possible, then burn it.
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