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Originally posted by jaguar
tw: If you put all your eggs in one basket doesn't mean than when it does get stolen, and lets be seirous here it will be, the same as passports are you will be TOTALLY stuff instead of partly stuffed with one ID thingy such as your credit card?
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The question of one basket is indeed serious. First, a National ID system does not work without a master database. Transactions with a master database is not a theat to individuals. But control of the database is key to point two of the Strategic Objective. Control of the database IS a threat to some in our society if it is diversified.
As for passport fraud, that exists because no NID exists. You loose a passport: problem because the passport can be manipulated to make another appear to be you. However most are not concerned about stealing your passport. They can counterfeit your passport easier with their picture on it. The US Passport is considered about the best ID system we have. And it is routinely counterfeited like those old $100 bills.
Key to an NID is a secure transaction system where your physical ID is verified to a secure database. Currently, your passport - an obsolete technology - is valid only because it contains your picture, insecurely attached, inside that passport.
Passports long ago were not secure ID. It gets worse with the decades. Look, even paper money and corporate payroll checks are no long secure means of transactions. We still operate a society based upon the assumption that those old verification methods work. Welcome to the 21st Century. We no longer have a valid ID confirmation system - point 1. We have never had a personal ID security system - point 2. Those are the two Strategic Objectives now required in the 21st Century that were not necesary in the 20th Century.
You loose your NID card. No problem. A secure database makes such a card useless to anyone but you. You loose your passport. One only need replace your picture with theirs - and steal you good name. Then there is the birth certificate. Once someone gets a copy of that, then they have access to your entire reputation - because there is no NID.
Currently, we have all our eggs in one basket - that is full of holes. We have NO identity protection system. We have NO identity proving system. We have a basket chock full of holes and not attempt even to patch those holes. Would you keep putting your eggs in that basket? We have no other basket and never will until we have an NID or something equivalent.
The threat to an NID is not in the individual's card. It is in the master database. Not because it threatens the general public's liberties. Because there are some special individuals in our society whose identities must remain secure.