Tool to backup, modify and clone ePassport released

Roger Hird ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:05:56 +0100


In article <Sca+ujAiEH6IFw56@tigers.demon.co.uk>,
   Mary Hawking <maryhawking@tigers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> anyone prepared to bet that the NHS number will become the ID number? 

Well when I was briefly involved in the e-government initiative as long
ago as 1997 there was discussion of the role of a national identity
database and, of existing systems, the NHS number was thought to be the
best starting point. 

> After all, that is where the old NHS number started... 

Indeed!  Just checked my 1944 identity card and it is indeed the same
number.

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