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 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Who will accept ID cards?


> Brian Gladman wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> I'll also settle for that, but I suspect it is a core function of a State.

Maybe - but only because our particular State is trying very hard to make it 
so because it truly wants its population surveillance and control system.

Were it not our unnecessarily intrusive State, I suspect the need to offer 
independent identity verification to those with whom I wish (or need) to 
establish a relationship would be really very rare.

Most of the relationships I need are either anonymous or of the form 'has 
this person, whoever they are, been here before'.

    Brian Gladman


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