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- From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
- Subject: Re: Today's conspiracy theory (was: ATM fraud)
- Message-ID: <Bw4vHq.B7x@exnet.co.uk>
- Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
- References: <1992Sep16.130653.17059@spider.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:51:25 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Sep16.130653.17059@spider.co.uk> paulq@spider.co.uk (Paul Qualtrough) writes:
- >Why don't all banks and other organisations requiring what are in effect
- >ID cards get together, create a single (smart) card with a single PIN of
- >however many digits is socially and security-wise acceptable, and then put
- >all their institution-specific information on that single card? The banks
- >would, I suggest, _love_ the problem of customer authentication taken
- >out of their hands and the burden placed somewhere else.
- >
- >Ideally, governments should introduce such a thing as an identity card
- >and licence card companies, banks, etc. to piggy-back their stuff on it.
- >The government guarantees that the card holder is who their PIN says they
- >are, and the burden of fraud is spread - we pay ever so slightly higher
- >taxes, but lower bank charges.
-
- Try this on the current government... Sort of ``Hi John; I've got this
- idea for a `Security Charter'.''
-
- >OK, so the civil libertarians don't like the idea of big brother watching
- >us through universal identity cards, but in this market economy world
- >you can always set one (low) scale of charges for those who reckon they
- >have nothing to hide and another (higher) rate for the libertarians who
- >want to have lots of individual cards. Money talks eventually.
-
- Damn good idea. Maybe the proportion trusting the identity card would
- be higher (a) in the more liberal democracies, and (b) where an
- identity card is already manditory, eg Spain, Italy...
-
- Damon
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