Comments on: Biometric passports not secure - another blow for ID cards http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/11/17/biometric-passports-not-secure-another-blow-for-id-cards/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:29:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: SBR8: Why you should pay attention to bloggers (again) « Scottish Blogging Roundup http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/11/17/biometric-passports-not-secure-another-blow-for-id-cards/#comment-22334 SBR8: Why you should pay attention to bloggers (again) « Scottish Blogging Roundup Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:35:48 +0000 http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/11/17/biometric-passports-not-secure-another-blow-for-id-cards/#comment-22334 [...] Away from the celebration of blogs though. It turns out that biometric passports can be hacked. Who didn’t see that one coming?! Will Howells compares Nick Clegg’s response to the news to that of the Home Office. Meanwhile, Garry Smith has a cheeky suggestion about what we should use biometric identifiers on the National Identity Register for. [...] [...] Away from the celebration of blogs though. It turns out that biometric passports can be hacked. Who didn’t see that one coming?! Will Howells compares Nick Clegg’s response to the news to that of the Home Office. Meanwhile, Garry Smith has a cheeky suggestion about what we should use biometric identifiers on the National Identity Register for. [...]

]]> By: BenJ http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/11/17/biometric-passports-not-secure-another-blow-for-id-cards/#comment-22309 BenJ Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:15:00 +0000 http://www.willhowells.org.uk/blog/2006/11/17/biometric-passports-not-secure-another-blow-for-id-cards/#comment-22309 What I liked most about this story was John Humphrys' introdcution for the No2ID spokesman on this morning's Today programme, in which he mis-read the organization's name as "Number Two ID" (only to be swiftly corrected by said spokesman). "Ah, that makes more sense," he said. Actually I was quite liking the image that Humphrys' version projected of the UK government's biometric ID plans as a big steaming pile of Number Two... :) What I liked most about this story was John Humphrys’ introdcution for the No2ID spokesman on this morning’s Today programme, in which he mis-read the organization’s name as “Number Two ID” (only to be swiftly corrected by said spokesman).

“Ah, that makes more sense,” he said.

Actually I was quite liking the image that Humphrys’ version projected of the UK government’s biometric ID plans as a big steaming pile of Number Two… :)

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