+1 for Privacy {in UK anyway}

BaconZombie

UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards :

ID cards are here - but police can't read them.

The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but no UK police officers or border guards have any way of reading the data stored on them.

Currently no police stations, border entry points or job centres have readers for the card's biometric chip, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) revealed in response to an FoI (Freedom of Information) request by silicon.com about the £4.7bn identity cards scheme.

The news comes in spite of the first ID cards being issued to foreign nationals in November last year, with the IPS expecting to issue 50,000 ID cards by April this year.

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Identity minister Meg Hillier told silicon.com last week that the chip is a "vital part" of the ID card scheme because the "fingerprint coded into the chip … links you to the card".

The broken nature of that link has already prompted criticism by the government's political rivals. Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said: "Once again ministers have shown that the ID card project is absolutely farcical. What is the point of spending billions of pounds on cards that can't be read in the UK?"

Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton told silicon.com: "If this capability is not there then the biometrics are, in short, a waste of time.

http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39391135,00.htm

GhostInTheRuins

Heh

That's the type of thing I'd almost expect to happen over here if (when) we get something similar.

Run_to_da_hills

It will only be a matter of time before every cop in Europe will be issued with these identity scanners.

These cards read at 13.56 MHz and hold of 32 kilobytes of EEPROM storage memory, and runs on an interface in accordance with the ISO/IEC 14443 international standard.

These standards ensure interoperability between different countries and different manufacturers of passport and Identity cards.

Turd Ferguson

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

It will only be a matter of time before every cop in Europe will be issued with these identity scanners.

These cards read at 13.56 MHz and hold of 32 kilobytes of EEPROM storage memory, and runs on an interface in accordance with the ISO/IEC 14443 international standard.

These standards ensure interoperability between different countries and different manufacturers of passport and Identity cards.

Are you trying to hack the cards or something?
If so, pm me

generalmiaow

They still seem determined to bring in the scheme though. I personally think it's absolute rubbish. If my ID card can be induced to transmit a particular unique key, even if it is meaningless without the backend of data, then anyone who can get close enough can track me. It disrupts the balance of power between those who have technology and those who don't. I don't see how it would have stopped any terrorist incident that I can think of in recent history without either sacrificing more privacy (how much do you want any random public office to know about you?) by putting in more ID checks or making it compulsory to carry the card.

There's also this business of ... it won't be compulsory to carry the card, but if you don't, what are you hiding anyway?

Thanks, maybe I will build a house out of glass bricks because I am not commiting any crimes.

r3nu4l

generalmiaow wrote: »

Thanks, maybe I will build a house out of glass bricks because I am not commiting any crimes.

Indecent exposure? :pac:

generalmiaow

r3nu4l wrote: »

Indecent exposure? :pac:

That and probably a few building codes! But the county council won't be able to find the letterbox.

Run_to_da_hills

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Are you trying to hack the cards or something?
If so, pm me

http://homebiss.blogspot.com/2009/02/clone-rfid-passport-cards-drivers.html

BaconZombie

Only one day till the tools are released.....

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

http://homebiss.blogspot.com/2009/02/clone-rfid-passport-cards-drivers.html