Pakistan’s government warns on ID card theft
News website Hi Pakistan reports:
If you have lost your national ID card, or allowed a copy of it to slip away, it could be used for opening a fake business company, to do the business of supplies and exports.
This highlights the Parkinson’s Law of security: the more bureaucracy; the more scope for fraud.
“But our cards will be biometric,” squeal ministers, reaching for their magic charm to ward off the evil eye. Don’t they understand that even if the system hasn’t been broken, biometrics require personal attendance for checking?
Roll on, ID-subject-not-present fraud; or welcome to a world where you have to present yourself to officials to get anything done.
June 11th, 2007 at 08:10
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