* Posts by tracemonkey

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Transcript disappears minister's 'hack-proof' ID register claim

tracemonkey
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don't worry about the internet connectivity

Take one look at the figures that Geer and Conway came up with in their recent "Beware the ID s of March" paper and you soon realize that where the govt is concerned, issues relating to ID theft are far more likely to come from simple bumbling incompetence, such as leaving a laptop in a taxi, than they are to come from active hacks over the net.

http://geer.tinho.net/ieee.geer.0803.pdf