I’m against a national ID card system. It will be riddled with fake IDs, placed there by bribed government agents, or even government agents doing their job. Undercover policemen and other covert agents are going to have to have fake IDs after all. Any ID system will be suborned by design because we have formal positions that require fake ID. The same methods and likely others will be used to create illicit fakes and all of the fanfare about how the new system is ultra-secure will allow for a great deal of penetration before the general public figures out that it’s bogus.
Biometric identity checks will only be a temporary respite as bio-forgers get on the challenge to sculpt illegals with biometrics to match their fancy illegal IDs. This will start in government labs no doubt (perhaps it’s already a solved problem and we don’t even know it) but technology moves fast and it’ll soon get out into the open market at which point capitalism will eventually crater the price until biometrics become worthless.
Already recipes for faking biometric fingerprint readers are available on the open Internet. Last I checked, you don’t need materials more sophisticated than gelatin. And once your fingers or your iris is compromised and being sold on the open market, what, exactly do you do as a replacement? Do you sculpt yourself to get an unused ID yourself? Pardon me if I find that offensive and unacceptable.
