[azhenfud]

Well, you see it's possible to make a scannable SSI card which has a embedded digital image of the holder, plus fingerprint (thumbprint) data. If that info was accessible by read-only format from a national database (probably would require several) and the information was abled to be compared to that of the card via a card "reader" with a split screen output with the national data image displayed next to the card image, if the cardholder didn't appear to be the same persuasion as the national database entry and that within the card, one could fairly safely reason theft.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

....so your going to give all the id card checkers in airports a device that can check the authenticity of these cards and build a network to run the results through a national data base...the putzes that govt hired to check passengers can barely read much less operate sophisticated equipment,,,the the bad guys will just devise ways to bypass the whole thing anyway.... no idea for any digitally based ID card will accomplish any increase in security given a determined enemy..