National ID Plans Face Hurdles

National ID Plans Face Hurdles
Ann Harrison, SecurityFocus 2002-04-17

Distributing thousands of card readers, guarding against corrupt insiders, defending against fraudsters and hack attacks... Plans to create a national ID card are fraught with peril.

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Government Patterns 2002-04-18
Michael Morgenstern (Mike (at) globalintersec (dot) com [email concealed])

The production and dissemination of "national" id cards is both troubling and worrying. Our federal government has shown time and time again that it is incapable of securing its computer systems from within (see Congressmen Horn's November 2001 security reviews - 16 of 24 agencies failed).

Why t...

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Panel Debates Flaws In National ID System 2002-04-18
Anonymous (1 replies)

I find Mr. Maxwell's logic quite intriguing-- his association has not been tasked by anyone to take any action, be it procedural or logistical, to circumvent the limits of the role of each state administrator by state statute. These people are not peace officers, they have no investigative mandate, ...

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Panel Debates Flaws In National ID System 2002-04-19
Anonymous

If part of the problem is bribery, how will a national system help? All that means is that once you bribe an official in one state, you have something that's valid in all of them.

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National ID will go the way of the SSN 2002-04-18
anonymous coward

Everyone has a social security number, and though it is/was intended to be used purely for social security purposes, it is a de facto national identification number being required by most state DMVs, among many many other organizations. The Social Security Administration has been powerless to preven...

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National ID Plans Face Hurdles 2002-04-19
Anonymous

all this is fine and dandy, but unless the police really do something about it will not make a difference. this is a great example.

in the city of los angeles you can go down to mac arthur park, about 1-2 miles from downtown los angeles area.you can buy any type of ID or document that your little h...

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Border Crossing Card case study 2002-04-20
Andrew Schulman

If you are interested in the case study of biometric Border Crossing Cards that is discussed in the text, see: http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/bccnew.htm.

The excellent study that Deidre Mulligan discussed is available at:

http://search.nap.edu/html/id_questions/

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National ID Plans Face Hurdles 2002-04-23
Hamster1

An idea or concept, is only as good as it's implementation.

I have seen some "fake" drivers licences, and some of them are pretty good.I don't think that any State DMV, could

integrate this high-level technonlogy without some serious

restructuring of their whole operation. All of us are aware

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