[xenophiles]

"Do you think your privacy is better protected if someone can walk around with phony docs with your name and your Social Security number, or is your privacy better protected if you have the confidence that the identification relied upon is in fact reliable and uniquely tied to a single individual?" Chertoff asked rhetorically.

Oh, the former, definitely. That's why I think ID numbers (such as SS numbers) and RFID documents are a very, very, very bad idea.

The upcoming federally approved IDs are intended to be a secure, tamperproof means of protecting Americans' identities while keeping out terrorists and other wrongdoers, Chertoff said.

...But will turn out to be laughably insecure, remotely scannable, trivially copiable and completely ineffective and detecting terrorists.

[archy]

The upcoming federally approved IDs are intended to be a secure, tamperproof means of protecting Americans' identities while keeping out terrorists and other wrongdoers, Chertoff said.

...But will turn out to be laughably insecure, remotely scannable, trivially copiable and completely ineffective and detecting terrorists.

And will be nevertheless useful for controlling the masses of sheep at internal security checkpoints. And other plans in the works....