Senators Eyeing "High-Tech, Fraud-Proof" National ID Card
• Wired.com“We would require all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want jobs to obtain a high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security card. Each card’s unique biometric identifier would be stored only on the card; no government database would house...
Five seconds in the microwave and it will not work anymore. Problem solved.
I LOVE it when someone calls something "fraud proof" !! Like DVDs encryption? Like Blu Ray's encryption? Like GSM encryption? Like anything that ever existed ever and for always? Yep.
Ha. Yeah the social security card we already have.
Nobody carries those around anymore because if its lost or stolen, you are TOAST.
And those social security cards were SUPPOSED to be just little keepsakes to let you know you were enrolled in this wizzy program. Just like the drivers licenses were SUPPOSED only to show you were skilled enough to drive a car.
The high-tech fraud-proof card will be cracked within a week. People will demonstrate how you can read it from across the street and use the data to program your own fraud-proof ID card. I guarantee it.
Give them an inch and they'll take a light year.
My Socialist Security card says, "For tax purposes only, not to be used for identification."
My, how times have changed.
Shortly before his death, my father (who was blinded on Iwo Jima) said, "All the things we fought against in World War II, our own government is doing to us today."