Comments on: Biometrics Bandwagon Outpacing Privacy Safeguards http://www.samizdata.net/2004/06/biometrics-bandwagon-outpacing/ A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective Tue, 21 May 2013 13:39:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Adrian Ramsey http://www.samizdata.net/2004/06/biometrics-bandwagon-outpacing/#comment-241660 Adrian Ramsey Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:55:27 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=6209#comment-241660 “A key benefit of the e-Plate is that the tag provides an encrypted and secure ID code which is registered in the UK Ministry (sic) of Transport’s vehicle database. This code prevents tampering, cloning, or other forms of fraud that can currently happen with camera-based systems. Additionally, the e-Plate is designed to shatter if anyone tries to remove or otherwise tamper with it, and the tag can be programmed to transmit a warning if any attempt is made to dislodge the plate.”

Remember the rotating number plates on the DB5 in “Goldfinger”? I give it 6 months before some clever geek cones up with a way of copying other codes and using them at random, or even generating valid but unassigned codes.

On the low-tech side, there’s always disabling other people’s tags en masse in the local NCP…

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