On Friday 25 November 2011 22:24:52 Rony wrote:
On 11/25/2011 11:54 AM, jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Friday 25 November 2011 11:36:30 kenneth gonsalves wrote:
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 19:21 +0530, Sameep wrote:
Don't you think that , unless the people who are taking your details and finger prints are blind , they would notice a bunch of wax strips hanging from your fingers ? Besides looking at you moisturizing your fingertips with your breath .
one thing nice about this list is the touching faith people have in the innate goodness of human beings in general and govt officials in particular.
Maybe they have not got shafted yet. Or just that they grew up being subservient and think that it is "normal business" in a democracy to be dog tagged and nose ringed.
As long as no individual however powerful is exempted and everyone is treated equally in the UID system, this system is necessary for a democracy to be healthy. If bio-metrics means dog tagging and nose ringing, why do people use it for security systems?
Because security is not identity. AND YOU do the id when you require access. It is not a random joe who pulls you up and tells you to auth. And it is for a tiny set - hence workable. And it requires re registration every few months, which is done easily by people who know you in your organisation. And you are not denied entitlement even if auth fails.... Even with all the above caveats, it barely works. Now multiply this by 1.2^9 on a daily basis and you know what you are up against. A stupid hare brained waste of public money by a marketroid hell bent on personal glorification.