Who will accept ID cards?

[Brian Gladman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Midgley" <amidgley at gmail.com>
To: "UK Cryptography Policy Discussion Group" 
<ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Who will accept ID cards?

> And returning again to the point I think is key, of a State providing a
> service to its inhabitants, selling people a system that means they need
> not be bothere by anyone else's (often very stupid) system is a service.
> Requiring them to carry yet another system that only works sometimes is
> the opposite.
>
> If the State is going to play, then let us have _service_ from it.

I would prefer that the State did not play at all since it has repeatedly 
demonstrated its incompetence in such matters as well as its shameless 
dishonesty in attempting to sell a population surveillance and control 
system as something entirely different.

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it 
probably is a duck"

    Brian Gladman


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