news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7516869.stm
Basically there is a simple hack which can give you free travel.
More frightening is the fact that swipe cards for Government secure buildings can be hacked because they use the same flawed chip.
TORCHWOOD is looking less like fantasy and more like reality.
This is yet another NAIL in the coffin of a National ID Database. There is no way that such a big database could be secure against hackers and attack. By storing ALL our biometrics in once place we give any "enemy state or alien race" a direct way to control us and get all the information in one hack.
Should you store ALL your valuables in one place ? A security expert would say to spread them around. The same principle as the Royal Family not travelling together on one plane.
Yet our MADMAN GOVERNMENT wants to put everything in one place.
Brown has to have lost his marbles poor man.