UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards

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UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 4, 2009 @09:11PM from the forest-for-the-trees dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Despite the introduction of ID cards last November, it has emerged that Britain has no readers that are able to read the cards' microchips, which contain the person's fingerprints and other biometric information. With cops and border guards unable to use the cards to check a person's identity, critics are calling the £4.7bn scheme 'farcical' and a 'waste of time.'"

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privacy by justhatched · 2009-02-04 21:17 · Score: 5, Funny

It is a security measure
1. Re:privacy by davester666 · 2009-02-04 21:53 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  except everybody BUT the gov't can read them...
  it's funny, but sad-funny.
  
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2. Re:privacy by Llanfairpwllgwyngyll · 2009-02-04 23:26 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It's like "plug and play" - that worked 50% too. As in, "plug" always worked, it was just the "play" bit that had problems...
Re:Look at Belgium by u38cg · 2009-02-04 21:24 · Score: 4, Funny

Or alternatively, we could spend the money on something useful, like giving every child a pony.

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You don't say. by greenguy · 2009-02-04 21:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Britain has no readers that are able to the cards' microchip
Hey, we all know how hard it can be to a card's microchip.

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1. Re:You don't say. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-04 21:32 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I accidentally the card's microchip, is this bad? :(
2. Re:You don't say. by BobisOnlyBob · 2009-02-04 22:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That sentence no verb!! You have no idea how much that me. >:(
3. Re:You don't say. by molecular · 2009-02-04 22:08 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I accidentally the card's microchip, is this bad? :(
  not if you didn't the chip on purpose, then you only have to money, not to jail.
Re:Look at Belgium by Nick+Fel · 2009-02-04 21:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Mmmm... food steps.
Re:Look at Belgium by michaeldot · 2009-02-04 21:53 · Score: 3, Funny

Microchipped pony.
Re:"in response to an FoI request"?!? by JohnBailey · 2009-02-04 22:27 · Score: 5, Funny

About 9 years ago.
It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard.

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Re:Look at Belgium by Goffee71 · 2009-02-04 22:41 · Score: 5, Funny

and when the credit crunch really bites, pony sausages and a nice warm coat

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/oblig "fixed that for you" by $RANDOMLUSER · 2009-02-04 22:43 · Score: 4, Funny

What you want is "Yes, Minister". Down the corridor, third on the left.

I'm sorry, this is abuse. You want "Yes, Minister". Down the corridor, third on the left.

Stupid git.

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Re:Look at Belgium by rHBa · 2009-02-04 23:28 · Score: 5, Funny

We could call it the OPPC project
Re:HRH Queen Elizabeth the Second?! by Sockatume · 2009-02-05 00:18 · Score: 4, Funny

This is why I normally use the Royal Etiquitte Add-On for Firefox. Stupid work PC.

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Re:Look at Belgium by digitig · 2009-02-05 00:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Maybe, but we were talking about eating it.

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