DWP Systems to run ID Cards

[Ian Batten]

I was reminded of this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6192419.stm

Key sentence:  ``Now the information will be spread across three  
existing IT systems, including the Department of Work and  
Pensions' (DWP) Customer Information Service, which holds national  
insurance records.''

[[ and can I just tell Apple GUI designers that pasting that in a  
matching font with the Apple Mail.app involves holding down four keys  
simultaneously, something which noted GUI counter-example GNU emacs  
has never needed me to do, and provides me with _two_ reasons to bcc  
a former colleague ]]

Now I'd not put December 2006 and December 2007 together, but the  
implication is that one of the key systems for the ID Register will  
be the system that started the current scandal about porous  
Government IT Security.  No wonder ID cards are being kicked into the  
long grass.

ian