ID Card Fail

[Ian Batten]

On 8 Aug 2009, at 17:23, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
>
> Yes the card they designed worked with some software they downloaded
> from the Internet, but by their own admission it was not an official
> reader and did not have the Government's public key.


So it's secure so long as there are no card readers in existence other  
than the official ones?  Yes, I can see that working.  Isn't the idea  
of security that it can _only_ be read with official readers, or am I  
missing something?
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