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Old 12-11-2003, 22:15   #41
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Re: Identity Cards
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Originally Posted by dr wadd
That will only hold true for some forms of biometric information. You'd have a hard time faking a retinal scan, but an iris scan could be forged with a suitable contact lens. Similarly fingerprints can be faked using a thin latex fingerprint with the appropriate pattern on it.
Nice one. Glad to see that someone shares my view that the protection systems can be circumvented by some lateral thinking and watching Mission Impossible & a few good 'caper' movies. Be interesting if the government invite hackers to test their system before they implement it.

After all, if Microsoft can't make a patchless operating system what chance have the British government got of making ID cards secure?
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