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Wednesday 6 August 2008, 4:02 PM
Do we need a biometric passport?
Writing about the problems they will face I could not expect to find such a strong support to my words. Today's article in Times Online depicts the vulnerability of combination of RFID and biometrics.
"The tests also raise serious questions about the Government’s £4 billion identity card scheme, which relies on the same biometric technology. ID cards are expected to contain similar microchips that will store up to 50 pieces of personal and biometric information about their holders", said Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Home Secretary, “It is of deep concern that the technology underpinning a key part of the UK’s security can be compromised so easily,” he said.
Thanks Times! Maybe now they will start thinking.
Two years since biometrics and RFID were added to UK passports we need another technology to secure this "security".
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£4billion indeed, so thats £20,000 for a keyboard, £50,000 for a monitor...etc etc. incredible, even in this day and age we are in the realms of really big money here. And, to put these figures into perspective;
a million seconds=eleven and a half days.
a billion seconds=thirty four years (!!).
Biometric passports? just the shear expenditure must cloud peoples
judgment when the contracts are being handed out, and goodness knows whos dodgy friends of friends are getting in on the process.
People will talk, no matter what, and there will always be sharks around to take advantage of these situations. Even to the point of setting up a false company to tender for such lucrative business.
Over cynical of me? I do hope so!
Thank you Roger for your sober view on these things.
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