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Smart Cards are already here in spades....
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By the way, just so you guys know, I spent some years in the 90s doing business proposals to state governments for statewide ID cards and driver licenses, and I know a little about card technology.
They're making a big deal out of "smart cards" right now and some seem to think they're big brother all over again. The truth is, they are a card, any polypro/synthetic plastic card with a computer chip embedded in it -- just like they're already using for the American Express blue, and those DirecTV cards you guys were talking about.
Smart cards are here. State governments, notably the governor of Utah, can't wait to be the first to use a "smart card" for a driver license. The only problems being worked out are 1) physical sturdiness so they can be carried in your wallet without breaking when you sit down, and 2) the little operating system (yes, like Windows) that will power what any card can be programmed to do.
They WILL come to your local license bureau, welfare office, drug store, gas station, and Best Buy. They'll be everywhere, and soon. They will have some of your ID information, and they will hold money balances which can be paid out and refreshed by depositing more cash to cover the purchases. They will "interact" with whatever you plug them into, just like your computer interacts when you go online. They will be hackable. They will be made by some institutions, like banks, to be very secure, but in other cases they will be easy to update with marketing data like the "cookies" in your computer.
The size of the memory on the chip will go up and up. They CAN hold fingerprints already, and your photo in JPEG, and they can hold iris scans or * features data or whatever is the popular security system of the day to help make a positive ID.
These are the facts. The technology is being developed. We've already test all these products, from * recognition software to fingerprint matching with a 99%+ hit rate. Except they like to call it "finger imaging" to take the curse off, that the word "fingerprint" has.
These cards are relatively easy to assemble -- simply bond a computer chip into a credit card sandwich and fuse the two halves. That's just one method. You solve the breakage problem by putting a harder shell on the chip and playing with the qualities of the compound in the plastics of the card itself.
You make the chip's capabilities more robust by writing new versions of the operating system (like Bluetooth, for example), and by writing new versions of the tiny programs that carry out the instructions for banking, ID, data and image storage, and so on.
I just wanted you to know this is far from being science fiction. It's already in high-gear development, and the states are racing for the first contracts for cards for driver's licenses, ID cards, welfare cards, banking cards, etc.
Have a nice day.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
They're making a big deal out of "smart cards" right now and some seem to think they're big brother all over again. The truth is, they are a card, any polypro/synthetic plastic card with a computer chip embedded in it -- just like they're already using for the American Express blue, and those DirecTV cards you guys were talking about.
Smart cards are here. State governments, notably the governor of Utah, can't wait to be the first to use a "smart card" for a driver license. The only problems being worked out are 1) physical sturdiness so they can be carried in your wallet without breaking when you sit down, and 2) the little operating system (yes, like Windows) that will power what any card can be programmed to do.
They WILL come to your local license bureau, welfare office, drug store, gas station, and Best Buy. They'll be everywhere, and soon. They will have some of your ID information, and they will hold money balances which can be paid out and refreshed by depositing more cash to cover the purchases. They will "interact" with whatever you plug them into, just like your computer interacts when you go online. They will be hackable. They will be made by some institutions, like banks, to be very secure, but in other cases they will be easy to update with marketing data like the "cookies" in your computer.
The size of the memory on the chip will go up and up. They CAN hold fingerprints already, and your photo in JPEG, and they can hold iris scans or * features data or whatever is the popular security system of the day to help make a positive ID.
These are the facts. The technology is being developed. We've already test all these products, from * recognition software to fingerprint matching with a 99%+ hit rate. Except they like to call it "finger imaging" to take the curse off, that the word "fingerprint" has.
These cards are relatively easy to assemble -- simply bond a computer chip into a credit card sandwich and fuse the two halves. That's just one method. You solve the breakage problem by putting a harder shell on the chip and playing with the qualities of the compound in the plastics of the card itself.
You make the chip's capabilities more robust by writing new versions of the operating system (like Bluetooth, for example), and by writing new versions of the tiny programs that carry out the instructions for banking, ID, data and image storage, and so on.
I just wanted you to know this is far from being science fiction. It's already in high-gear development, and the states are racing for the first contracts for cards for driver's licenses, ID cards, welfare cards, banking cards, etc.
Have a nice day.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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i have also seen one implanted chip in a person that can or is used just like a credit card. run the scanner over the wrist is just like running your credit cards through the scanner.
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"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878