[Gllug] London explosions

[SteveC]

* @ 11/07/05 03:46:03 PM nix at esperi.org.uk wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Christopher Hunter whispered secretively:
> > The ID card system will be utterly useless - after all EDS have been chosen to 
> > implement it.  It's unlikely ever to work.  It's also one of the very best 
> > reasons to emigrate.  The "free country" we used to live in has long gone.
> 
> Most European countries have ID cards too, as does the US.

In general they are pretty different implementations to what we will
get, they don't have the big database behind them. The germans even
purposefully throw away a lot of informations.

The LSE report on the ID Card issue is well worth a read for the section
going through every country with ID Cards:

http://is.lse.ac.uk/idcard/identityreport.pdf

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/
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