A National ID Card

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Originally posted by jaguar
This Is an interesting practical example of arguements agains't a naional ID system (stolen off lsashdot)

The example only demonstrates what would happen when ID verification is distributed to so many, insecure, ID verification agencies. Currently, the driver's license is not a secure database and never was intended. We don't have a identification database anywhere that is secure or reliable - especially when a driver's license is considered the best form of ID. This example only demonstrates how porous the current ID verification system is - in part because it was not designed nor intended to be be an ID verification system nor an ID protection system.

Currently, in a nation where ID theft is most profitable, we have no National ID verification system nor any ID protection system. Currently, the nation that most requires such a system is the United States. Currently that system is often compromised (even by college kids) simply by counterfeiting a birth certificate in order to attack that person. Currently, that victim has no defense unless he accidentally stumbles upon the crime or is prosecuted for something he did not do. Currently the only system we count on to verify a person's identity has also been sold to private mailing lists. Currently, we have no ID verification and protection system as demonstrated by a cited article entitled "Alleged ID Theft Could Affect Thousands In Oregon".