UK Spends £4.4 billion on ID Cards, but has no card readers. Uhhh....
source: http://www.dailytech.com/66B+British+ID+Program+Has+No+Card+Readers/article14175.htm
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The UK's ambitious program revealed to be a major waste of money as they have no available readers.
It took a Cambridge University security expert to explain the obvious:
"If this capability is not there then the biometrics are, in short, a waste of time. I would have thought that the government would have tried to get the readers rolled out as soon as possible as it is only when you get serious deployments that you start to learn what can go wrong."
No definite timetable has been set for the rollout of the readers. The IPS has stated previously that it plans to roll them out, but they may cost British citizens even more taxpayer money.
Furthermore, many of its officials seem indifferent to the idea and seem quite content not to push for the installation of any readers at all. States IPS's Hiller, "We have always said that we would roll out the scheme incrementally. The card will not be as useful as it could be until we have got the volumes out there. There's no prospect in the immediate future for the government directing anybody that you have to buy those things [readers] because we would be placing a burden on these organisations."
It took a Cambridge University security expert to explain the obvious:
"If this capability is not there then the biometrics are, in short, a waste of time. I would have thought that the government would have tried to get the readers rolled out as soon as possible as it is only when you get serious deployments that you start to learn what can go wrong."
No definite timetable has been set for the rollout of the readers. The IPS has stated previously that it plans to roll them out, but they may cost British citizens even more taxpayer money.
Furthermore, many of its officials seem indifferent to the idea and seem quite content not to push for the installation of any readers at all. States IPS's Hiller, "We have always said that we would roll out the scheme incrementally. The card will not be as useful as it could be until we have got the volumes out there. There's no prospect in the immediate future for the government directing anybody that you have to buy those things [readers] because we would be placing a burden on these organisations."
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