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10 May · Tue 2005

The answer is expensive technology...


... now, what was the question? Actually, forget it, I don't really care what the question was. The answer is still expensive technology. Here are two articles which caught my eye recently: One on the Real ID programme: "Real ID" cards And one on post-9/11 defensive technology: US hi-tech border controls I must be getting old. When I started learning about cryptographic products, they seemed to me to be a straightforward and definitive solution to an information security problem. These days I'm more cautious. Experience has already shown the current US administration that whipping out the cheque-book and ordering the latest gizmatronics probably won't fix the complex social, cross-border, geo-political problem of defending permeable borders against small-scale, high-impact threats. Instinct, though, is a cruel mistress with expensive tastes. The Real ID programme has a budget of 20 times what has already been spent on the border-screening technology.
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