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Famous Fraudster Claims ID Cards Help Criminals

Tom Espiner writes on ZDNet UK:

Frank Abagnale, a one-time fraudster who now works with law-enforcement agencies, said national ID card schemes make it "100 times easier" to steal personal information.

Speaking at the RSA Conference Europe 2007, Abagnale said that one weak link in an organisation can compromise the whole system.

"With the ID cards scheme, all it takes is one weak civil servant to be bought off, and one weak link can [compromise the system]," said Abagnale. "I'm not big on ID cards -- you're giving the government information that someone else can access. ID cards make it 100 times easier to steal that information, because it's concentrated in one place."

posted by Fergie @ 10/25/2007 09:49:00 PM