Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Catching up on news, at the weekend the chief of Metropolitan police has said again that ID Cards are needed. See, this is why no-one respects the police any more when their chief is saying such stupid things.
"I wasn't particularly keen on ID cards until recently - until I began to understand the way in which identity theft is carried out. There are no more printing presses in basements. The documents that are being produced are exactly identical to the real documents, they're just unauthorised," he said.
He seems to think that ID Cards will somehow magically be uncopyable. He's ignoring the fact that no biometric system has been developed yet which is good enough that it doesn't have a margin of error which makes it impractical when multiplied up to numbers such as the population of the UK. Surely identity theft is made more difficult by having a number of different documents rather than one card. At the moment the capitalist society has made people are a bit too free and easy with their various forms of ID, it might be more useful for the Government to work on making people be more careful with what they've got already, rather than wasting millions of pounds on giving them another card to be careless with.
"I wasn't particularly keen on ID cards until recently - until I began to understand the way in which identity theft is carried out. There are no more printing presses in basements. The documents that are being produced are exactly identical to the real documents, they're just unauthorised," he said.
He seems to think that ID Cards will somehow magically be uncopyable. He's ignoring the fact that no biometric system has been developed yet which is good enough that it doesn't have a margin of error which makes it impractical when multiplied up to numbers such as the population of the UK. Surely identity theft is made more difficult by having a number of different documents rather than one card. At the moment the capitalist society has made people are a bit too free and easy with their various forms of ID, it might be more useful for the Government to work on making people be more careful with what they've got already, rather than wasting millions of pounds on giving them another card to be careless with.
