<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Chris Salter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ukcrypto@originalthinktank.org.uk">ukcrypto@originalthinktank.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello UKCRYPTO,<br>
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Below are selected quotes from<br>
"Welfare reform: government hopes there's an app for that"<br>
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/oct/19/welfare-reform-government-hopes-app" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/<u></u>society/2011/oct/19/welfare-<u></u>reform-government-hopes-app</a><br>
or<br>
<a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/3s3u6va" target="_blank">http://preview.tinyurl.com/<u></u>3s3u6va</a><br>
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"An online "app" to help 8m households apply for the new universal credit, integrating tax credits and out-of-work benefits, is being developed as part of one of the most hazardous and ambitious IT programmes ever undertaken by government"<br>
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"The IT security for the system is to be linked to claimants' existing security codes, operated by their commercial banks, he also disclosed."<br>
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"Freud said: "We are getting a lot of help from the banking community. They have got security systems we are looking at very closely. The fundamental is to know who is on the system, and one of the things we are looking at is piggy-backing on those systems. So rather than us having to ID assure, one of the things we can do is get customers to click through their bank account to us.""<br>
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The government already have an 'ID assurance system' called "Government Gateway" used for submitting tax returns, accessing state pension forecasting and probably other facilities.<br></blockquote><div>
<br></div><div>The government gateway handily allows its operators to impersonate anyone they want...</div><div><br></div></div>