{"id":197687,"date":"2008-01-17T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/17\/ex-mi5-head-high-tech-id-cards-provide-no-security\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T22:50:00","slug":"ex-mi5-head-high-tech-id-cards-provide-no-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/17\/ex-mi5-head-high-tech-id-cards-provide-no-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-MI5 Head: High Tech ID Cards Provide No Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This really comes as no surprise.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/4444512.stm\">Dame Stella Rimington&#8217;s description of the idea of high tech ID cards as &#8220;useless&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Old article, but still germane.  I came across it when someone referred me to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/how_to_not_fix.html\">Bruce Schneier&#8217;s blog post<\/a> on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This really comes as no surprise. Dame Stella Rimington&#8217;s description of the idea of high tech ID cards as &#8220;useless&#8221;. Old article, but still germane. I came across it when someone referred me to an article in Bruce Schneier&#8217;s blog post on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,1081,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-laws","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}