Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> ID Cards: Scandalous as Well as Idiotic
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>| In other words, the UK government is trying to use a kind of financial
>| blackmail to keep its idiotic projects going: continue or cough up. And to
>| add insult to injury, it cloaks its activities in secrecy. What a morally
>| corrupt bunch.
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> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/05/id-cards-scandalous-as-well-as-idiotic.html
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> Sounds exactly like what we've found in Microsoft.
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Nobody who understands anything about ID systems regards this as
anything but an insane waste of money coupled with a total intrusion
into personal privacy.
Once the database is hacked, it'll provide a wealth of information for
the actual criminals. You know, the ones with the faked ID.
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