"ID card system may implode"

Britannist · 08-08-2007, 10:08 AM

The ID card scheme may implode it has been claimed today - according to a report now on ITV 1 Teletext (analogue page 311).

Professor John Daugman of Cambridge University said "Using fingerprints to identify people would mean thousands of (ID) card-holders might be wrongly matched with someone else's details."

The Professor warned of one in a thousands possible "false matches" when six million people "are in the (ID card) system."

Teletext reported that Professor Daugman remained concerned about the possibility of "widespread technology failures" in the ID card system.

John Carter · 08-08-2007, 10:12 AM

"May?"

Zak64 · 08-08-2007, 12:31 PM

And the good professor is assuming there will be no attempts to resist or sabotage the ID cards by the public.

How about a few dozens (hundreds?) of thousand people changing their names to Michael Mouse, all having the same date of birth, and 'accidentally' rubbing a bit of dilute sulphuric acid all over their finger pads before the finger prints are taken?

mkpdavies · 09-08-2007, 09:07 AM

Millions of our pounds are being wasted already on this fiasco. It will cost millions to maintain it too, forever.

I hate this country more by the day.

Tara · 09-08-2007, 02:14 PM

http://forum.no2id.net/index.php

Get involved. I plan to fight it all the way.

IceDragon · 10-08-2007, 07:15 PM

Super-glue dripped onto the finger tip over the print makes it unreadable

One has to remember to let the glue dry before putting one's finger on the scanner though...

Then again, that would be a bloody good one! Hundreds of people gluing their fingers to scanners!!!

g hall · 11-08-2007, 11:55 AM

I don't know if anyone else here works with scanners and readers but the failure rate is pretty good can you imagine the confusion when a scanner goes down and given the government's IT record I reckon that'll be worse then the private sector record

It will be laughable if it wasn't costing so much money from us taxpayers which could be better spent on other things

Baron von Lotsov · 16-08-2007, 03:08 PM

It will implode (and explode) but fingerprint matches would be about my tenth reason why. Number one will always be the people and true anarchy in the UK. I hear my local already has an indoor smoking room!

Smidgey · 20-08-2007, 03:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IceDragon

Super-glue dripped onto the finger tip over the print makes it unreadable

One has to remember to let the glue dry before putting one's finger on the scanner though...

Then again, that would be a bloody good one! Hundreds of people gluing their fingers to scanners!!!

Good idea, I'll remember this one. Although, I plan on not even doing whatever it is I need to do in order to get my ID card.

Anthony Butcher · 28-08-2007, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zak Zzygote

How about a few dozens (hundreds?) of thousand people changing their names to Michael Mouse, all having the same date of birth, and 'accidentally' rubbing a bit of dilute sulphuric acid all over their finger pads before the finger prints are taken?

How about using some of those fake stick-on fingerprints that Bond uses in one of the films... are they real? We could have thousands of people with identical finger prints

08-08-2007, 10:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
Britannist Uber Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: London Posts: 22,896	"ID card system may implode" The ID card scheme may implode it has been claimed today - according to a report now on ITV 1 Teletext (analogue page 311). Professor John Daugman of Cambridge University said "Using fingerprints to identify people would mean thousands of (ID) card-holders might be wrongly matched with someone else's details." The Professor warned of one in a thousands possible "false matches" when six million people "are in the (ID card) system." Teletext reported that Professor Daugman remained concerned about the possibility of "widespread technology failures" in the ID card system. Last edited by Britannist; 08-08-2007 at 10:17 AM.

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Zak64 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Little Poland On Sea (Bournemouth) Posts: 687	And the good professor is assuming there will be no attempts to resist or sabotage the ID cards by the public. How about a few dozens (hundreds?) of thousand people changing their names to Michael Mouse, all having the same date of birth, and 'accidentally' rubbing a bit of dilute sulphuric acid all over their finger pads before the finger prints are taken? __________________ If anyone complains about unlimited mass immigration we call them a racist - it's our culture!

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mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 30,604	Millions of our pounds are being wasted already on this fiasco. It will cost millions to maintain it too, forever. I hate this country more by the day. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Blue Labour, Lib Dems

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g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 4,927	I don't know if anyone else here works with scanners and readers but the failure rate is pretty good can you imagine the confusion when a scanner goes down and given the government's IT record I reckon that'll be worse then the private sector record It will be laughable if it wasn't costing so much money from us taxpayers which could be better spent on other things __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

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08-08-2007, 10:12 AM	#2 (permalink)
John Carter Uber Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: On Sabbatical Posts: 5,110	"May?"

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Tara Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 797	http://forum.no2id.net/index.php Get involved. I plan to fight it all the way.

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IceDragon Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,048	Super-glue dripped onto the finger tip over the print makes it unreadable One has to remember to let the glue dry before putting one's finger on the scanner though... Then again, that would be a bloody good one! Hundreds of people gluing their fingers to scanners!!!

16-08-2007, 03:08 PM	#8 (permalink)
Baron von Lotsov Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 890	It will implode (and explode) but fingerprint matches would be about my tenth reason why. Number one will always be the people and true anarchy in the UK. I hear my local already has an indoor smoking room!