On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:38:23PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: > > On a conceptual level I have no particular problem with carrying an id > card. Do I trust the government to get it right and to protect my data ? > Not a bloody chance !
Especially since, given the Guv's love affair with MS, (and lack of funding and training) all the data will probably be stored in a Access "database" stored on a shared drive somewhere ... waiting for SoBig.[J-Za-z0-9] to mail it to every possible email address in the known universe. Sorry: I'm feeling pissed after another day writing Perl programs to analyse and report the 00's of PCs using up to 70% of the 10Gbit backbone bandwidth at work ... and a couple of days after hearing that the NorthEast's emergency response teams plans are all stored as ... .doc and .mdb :-( -- Chris Benson
