Re: Time for ID cards?
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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Anything can be hacked.
That is true. The best security will only buy time. Even a virtual AES 256 encryption, though using what is called a brute force cracking machine on a state of the art platform ---- well it would take a humongous length of time.
But it's not the data transfer from the access key (ID Card) that is where the record set that relates to each individual, it's on the servers that the access key gives access to, and read only access too.
The only
practical way the record set could, yes
could be accessed by a really determined hacker would be a human plant where the servers or the server man-machine interfaces were situated or where an illicit "backdoor" had been installed prior to compiling the server Operating System.
The bottom line, well lines are these.
The plastic thing people will need to carry will have very little data on them beyond an identifying code - just like a credit /debit card and a digitised photograph just like a driving license.
A person having authorised access would stick the card in a card reader and be presented with the same photo as on your card.
He would then, depending on the level of information or data he was granted be able to do what he was require to do.
This thing will come, and soon. It has to. We NEED it.
What will happen with data that is created by the access key being used and how information will be generated by mining that data is a whole new can of worms but it certainly will make protecting us for example from islamic terrorists one hell of a lot easier and in addition getting those who have no right to be in OUR country the hell out.
We NEED this.