UK ID card a recipe for massive ID fraud, says Microsoft exec

Fishenden, of Micro$oft UK,
"points to the ‘honeypot effect’ of putting a comprehensive set of personal data in one place, thus producing a “richly rewarding target for criminals,” and says that we “should not be building systems that allow hackers to mine information so easily… Inappropriate technology design could provide new hi-tech ways of perpetrating massive identity fraud on a scale beyond anything we have seen before: the very problem the system was intended to prevent.”
...Microsoft has expressed its concerns directly to the Home Office ID cards team but Fishenden said other suppliers are keeping quiet about their fears over the viability of the current proposals because they want a piece of what would be a multi-billion pound project."
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