Tool to backup, modify and clone ePassport released

[Mary Hawking]

>, Ian Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes

>>Using magic numbers like passport number, SSN, NHS number as ``only 
>>you can know this'' identifiers clearly doesn't work: no-one seriously 
>>suggests that the they are, or indeed can be, simultaneously kept 
>>confidential and used as general purpose identifiers.
>
>Although there is a widespread belief that you *can* do this with SSNs, 
>amongst the public and many bureaucrats/administrators in the USA.
>--
>Roland Perry

And in the NHS for NHS numbers.
This lack of joined up thought is worrying...
Mary Hawking
PS anyone prepared to bet that the NHS number will become the ID number? 
After all, that is where the old NHS number started... and the systems 
are already there for the vast majority of the population.

-- 
Mary Hawking