See Stephen T. Kent's Congressional testimony, "IDs?Not That Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems", March 16, 2006. http://www7.nationalacademies.org/.../IDs_Not_That_Easy.asp
As Vice President and Chief Scientist / Information Security / BBN Technologies, Steve was asked to chair the Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications, National Research Council / The National Academies. The Committee originally planned to write a paper titled "Who Goes There?"; in the process, they found the issue of establishing identity to be complex enough to warrant another paper (title above; both are linked to in the testimony).
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See Stephen T. Kent's Congressional testimony, "IDs?Not That Easy:
Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems", March 16, 2006. http://www7.nationalacademies.org/.../IDs_Not_That_Easy.asp
As Vice President and Chief Scientist / Information Security / BBN Technologies, Steve was asked to chair the Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications, National Research Council / The National Academies. The Committee originally planned to write a paper titled "Who Goes There?"; in the process, they found the issue of establishing identity to be complex enough to warrant another paper (title above; both are linked to in the testimony).
Ad yes: it's STILL a bad idea.