ID cards are the ultimate identity theft | Ian Angell - Times Online he shows how the problem is that the NIR will remove us from our possessions:
"In effect, your identity won't reside in the living flesh and blood of you, but in the database. You will be separated from your identity; you will no longer own it. All your property and money will de facto belong to the database entry. You only have access to your property with the permission of the database. Paradoxically, you only agreed to register to protect yourself from “identity theft”, and instead you find yourself victim of the ultimate identity theft - the total loss of control over your identity."In effect, the state appropriates our goods and chattels and our earning power, and leases them back to us.
And to make matters worse, the government seems to be falling for the myth of technological infallibility and missing the real worry:
a persistent warning from the law enforcement authorities was that criminal gangs had placed “sleepers” in financial sector companies, and they were just waiting for the one big hit. The perpetrators of 80 per cent of all computer security lapses are not hackers, but employees. Cryptographic systems don't help if the criminal has been given the keys to the kingdom. Why should the ID centre be immune, especially when there will be nearly 300 government departments logging in. Furthermore, the register will be the No 1 target for every hacker on the planet: the Olympic Games of hacking.
And the government are going for the soft targets: students (who they hope to persuade to volunteer), airport workers (who will be compelled) and immigrants (who will be compelled with a big stick). I hope that the NUS will get behind a campaign to dissuade students.
4 comments:
Duke, I did censor your comment because you didn't have the courtesy to check out my blog for an appropriate post. As such what you did was spam. It's a bit like shouting through my letter box instead of joining a conversation, and so, as a mattor of principle I deleted it.
The ID card is mean of security. Through the ID card you should be consider as the resident of the country. For the high quality and secure Id cards the new id card printing machine has introduced.
Oh Safdar, Safdar ... I considered deleting this but it is so amusing. First off, it gives the impression of engaging with the post but then goes on to advertise something that is contrary to the spirit of the post. Delicious. And that first sentence: what DOES it mean?
Post a Comment