ID cards, are you scared?

[motorbiking]

If people seriously believe that a digital ID will somehow reveal more to the govenment or more 'sinister' agencies, than they know already, in this goldfish bowl digital world we live in, they are deluded.

Card or no card - no fuggs given.

Thats not really the issue, the issue is it simplified Identity Theft, would cost a fortune and nobody wanted it.

 

[Dec27]

Thats not really the issue, the issue is it simplified Identity Theft, would cost a fortune and nobody wanted it.

He’s just looking for another argument

 

[IT Minion]

Thats not really the issue, the issue is it simplified Identity Theft, would cost a fortune and nobody wanted it.

It would reduce identity theft as it would require real time verification of identity and track the use of that identity. On the event it did happen then proving it wasn't you would be massively easier, reducing the damage done.

So at last your government ID could at last be up to date with what Banks were doing a decade ago.

 

[motorbiking]

It would reduce identity theft as it would require real time verification of identity and track the use of that identity. So your government ID was at last up to date with what Banks were doing a decade ago.

The rest of the IT security industry disagrees. They argue:

• • Single Point of Failure: Consolidating multiple records into one mandatory ID system creates a highly lucrative "all-in-one" target for hackers.
  • Total Identity Cloning: If a centralized database is breached or a master credential is stolen, a criminal gains access to your entire legal footprint at once, rather than just a single account.
  • Wider Blast Radius: Compromising one mandatory credential allows fraudsters to instantly access various government benefits, tax records, and banking options tied to that single key.
  • Phishing Vulnerabilities: Fraudsters can easily target citizens with highly convincing, unified scams pretending to update or verify the "one mandatory card"

 

[IT Minion]

The rest of the IT security industry disagrees. They argue:

• • Single Point of Failure: Consolidating multiple records into one mandatory ID system creates a highly lucrative "all-in-one" target for hackers.
  • Total Identity Cloning: If a centralized database is breached or a master credential is stolen, a criminal gains access to your entire legal footprint at once, rather than just a single account.
  • Wider Blast Radius: Compromising one mandatory credential allows fraudsters to instantly access various government benefits, tax records, and banking options tied to that single key.
  • Phishing Vulnerabilities: Fraudsters can easily target citizens with highly convincing, unified scams pretending to update or verify the "one mandatory card"

Did you just copy and AI summary and palm it off as the security industry?

Because none of that disagrees with me and some of it is wrong

 

[IT Minion]

Right now we have a system where you can prove your identity with a range of different physical ID of varying quality. We have multiple 'login' methods for the same services.

All the others are equally valid as long as there is any government online ID system.

 

[motorbiking]

Right now we have a system where you can prove your identity with a range of different physical ID of varying quality. We have multiple 'login' methods for the same services.

All the others are equally valid as long as there is any government online ID system.

Once we have one single mandatory ID. That will change.

 

[noseall]

Thats not really the issue, the issue is it simplified Identity

You mean instead of rummaging around for both a drivers license and a utilities bill, lol. Yeah I can live with or without that. No dramas.

 

[blup]

The downside to ID cards is that foreign powers (MAGGAS Chineese and Russsians) will clone or infiltrate the technology and we’ll get criminals with valid ID.

 

[mikehammer69]

The downside to ID cards is that foreign powers (MAGGAS Chineese and Russsians) will clone or infiltrate the technology and we’ll get criminals with valid ID.

Off the top of my head is that currently happening with existing passport id

Wouldn’t foreigners be flying in with uk passports instead of using boats

 

[blup]

Off the top of my head is that currently happening with existing passport id

Wouldn’t foreigners be flying in with uk passports instead of using boats

The ones that can already are

 

[IT Minion]

Once we have one single mandatory ID. That will change

In the context of the issue I described: Good. A reduced attack surface and higher quality authentication will reduce identity theft.