[Gllug] NHS opt out

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On 23 Jan 2007, Mike Brodbelt said:
> Possibly, but I personally don't have a problem with ID cards per se. I
> have a huge problem with the proposed implementation we're getting, but
> that's a different story. An ID card that has all your personal data on,
> encrypted, and then digitally signed by the Government could work, as
> long as you and only you could authorise people to interrogate it, and

But how would you do that without another form of identification? It
doesn't solve the authentication problem at all: just makes the
consequences of a single crooked act (in this case, card theft) more
catastrophic.

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taking over, and possibly the complete collapse of Human Civilization.'
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