U-Turn On UK ID Cards

An anonymous reader writes "The UK appears to be watering down its national ID card system, with the revelation by the government that it will now only check the cards against a central biometric database in a minority of cases. Critics are saying it not only renders the whole scheme pointless, but will pose a security risk by making it far easier to use copied or cloned cards. 'But an Identity and Passport Service spokesman denied the system would be vulnerable to fraud: 'The majority of instances where people use their identity cards will be day-to-day situations where the cards offer a convenient method of proving identity such as a young person proving their age to buy alcohol,' he said.'"

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Re:What a waste

[Anonymous Coward]

I know what you mean. Tinker Toys were great out of the tube, but it only took a few hours of active building before the tangs started breaking off or getting "smooshed". Some of the other sets were much more robust.