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Genius. Britan spends billions on biometric ID cards but didn't bother to spend any money on devices to read them -- (link)

Posted by oblique, eighth best slackertalker (aka kkuphal) Feb 6 '09, 06:23

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FAIL (www.dailytech.com)

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No-one in the UK carries ID now, don't see how they're going to carry these cards in the future. -- nm - LMS Feb 6, 06:44
Meh. You need cards first. Our driver licenses have had mag stripes for more then a decade but I've NEVER had mine swiped. - Ender Feb 6, 06:40 1
- I have at a few events when I bought alcohol. -- nm - TWuG Feb 6, 07:04
why spend money on readers before there are any cards? besides, you have to get people used to the idea first -- nm - zork Feb 6, 06:26 4
- usually you get them together, in a limited area, then expand. -- nm - loosilu Feb 6, 06:28 3
  - ...as in airports where people can use biometric scanning to bypass security. -- nm - loosilu Feb 6, 06:28 2
    - this is exactly how the canadian government got my retina mapped. - mafic Feb 6, 06:48
    - The article does say that airport workers will be the first to get them when they start handing them out. -- nm - Ender Feb 6, 06:41
I can't believe a huge, bureaucracy-heavy government program wouldn't work smoothly. -- nm - loosilu Feb 6, 06:24

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