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Antaletriangle
11-07-2008, 11:02 PM
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39544371,00.htm
I have recently developed a sincere distaste for this woman,including her treatment of Mr.Mckinnon.Perverse behaviour.


While anti-ID campaigners have said it will be almost impossible to lock fingerprints to biographical details in a secure manner if those biometrics are taken in a high-street business, Smith said on Thursday that the process would be secure.

"It is clearly important, and part of the work we are doing and the plans we have in place, to ensure the secure, controlled transfer of any biometrics," Smith told ZDNet UK at a press event. "I believe it is technically possible to do that. I don't see the challenge is greater because more people are accredited to do it."

Smith added that accredited businesses would have a strong competitive reason to ensure that the biometric transfers they perform are secure, as failure to do so would have an impact on their reputation. However, so far the Home Office has given no precise information as to how fingerprints would be linked to biographical data, or any details about how the National Identity Scheme would be implemented.

High-street enrolment-centre service providers would be accredited by the Identity and Passport Service, said Smith, who added that "enrolment should be able to take place in the post office and shopping centre".

Smith criticised both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats for saying they would scrap the scheme.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7714998.stm
Government claims of widespread public enthusiasm for ID cards "beggar belief", critics have said, as it emerged the cost of cards may double.

Remarks by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that people "can't wait" for cards to be introduced would "haunt" her in the future, campaign group NO2ID said.

The fresh criticism came amid concerns about the cost of providing biometric data and fingerprints needed to apply.

This requirement could add an estimated £29 on top of the £30 cost of the card.

Applicants will have to foot the cost of supplying their fingerprints and biometric data such as an iris scan.

She must be ignoring twice the number of people who are coming up to her and saying I don't want my details on any database whatsoever

Phil Booth, NO2ID, on Jacqui Smith

The Identity and Passport Service estimates this could cost £29 each but stresses that this figure is not set in stone and is dependent on several factors.

Opposition parties have criticised the ID scheme as a huge waste of money.

Phil Booth, national coordinator of the NO2ID campaign, said Jacqui Smith's claim that people were saying they wanted an ID card "beggared belief" and would "come back to haunt her".

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AndyH
11-07-2008, 11:19 PM
Every single day I see creeping fascism in the UK.
Every day I feel happier about having left the place.

mntruthseeker
11-07-2008, 11:35 PM
I just have to add, everytime I see such an article , I wonder when it will be here.

This time I have hope it may never get here.

freekatz
11-07-2008, 11:40 PM
She's a British version of Nancy Pelosi - the one who brought such promise of change and has done the opposite

Antaletriangle
11-08-2008, 12:15 AM
I must admit i'm extremely 'fed up' with this country.One example being two days ago i discovered school kids approaching people in my local village and harranguing them with abuse,myself included,shouting obscenities etc.It appears that there's a 'culture' they've developed which includes setting tasks for each other-all negative and then posting how successful they've been in their evil on the net!!!I'm unsure which forum they use if they at all use a forum but it's all about boasting of their 'achievments' in upsetting people.Crazy times-are they possessed in some way?!!Makes me angry;why don't they set tasks of helping people,like old women with shopping bags and such like-much too good for them-it's hip and trendy to be nasty-they have no positive role models;most are gangster types loaded with bling and guns-scary stuff.I wasn't innocent as a child but i didn't behave in this way-i used to get told off for pinching apples out of trees and lighting fires,roasting potatoes and hedge hopping etc.

Antaletriangle
11-11-2008, 05:42 PM
British biometric ID card system vulnerable to cloning (11/11/2008)
http://www.securitypark.co.uk/security_article262262.html
TSSI has branded the Government proposal by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ask companies such as the Post Office to collect biometric data as irresponsible. It said that such a system that allowed private companies to gain ownership of public identity data could be vulnerable to abuse.

“Handing over the keys to public identity data to organisations such as Royal Mail will open up a whole new can of worms. It seems preposterous to put public data into the hands of a third party when data loss is as commonplace as it is,” said Stewart Hefferman, COO, TSSI Systems Ltd. “It’s clear now that the government has intended to link the ID card scheme into its other services. I’ve been concerned about such an extension of ID card use since they were very first announced.”
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Allie
11-11-2008, 06:00 PM
I'm obviously not in favour of ID cards and I think the majority are of that view.The reasons for them are flimsy, but there are some who are of the 'I've got nothing to hide' outlook. Oh dear!!The LibDem's have an anti-ID cards campaign and Nick Clegg has made an official statement to the effect that he'd have no problem in being arrested and jailed for refusing to have one. Given the protest by the LD's in respect of the erosion of civil liberties, ID cards and so on - I think he'd have no choice but to stand by his word.Others in the media are coming out and saying much the same thing. Perhaps if we all said it......:original:*There is barely a month that goes by without some scandal about the government losing sensitive data. Someone, somewhere appears to be doing their best to illustrate their incompetence in this area and in doing so, trying to rally the public into the 'don't trust them with this ID card game!' outlook.:original: