Q&A: Jon Callas of PGP
By Mary Branscombe,
What implications does the breach have for the government's plans for ID cards?
As someone who thinks that the ID plans are a bad thing, my optimistic view is that it will scuttle them. Pessimistically, they'll wait for this to blow over, and then proceed. Even more pessimistically, they will come up with an irrelevant tweak to existing things and claim that solves the problem. For example, they would bring in biometrics and claim that because they have biometrics, the plans are now secure. It takes someone with some security savvy to realize that biometrics would actually make the system worse.
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