What stops fake NIDC's? People duplicate credit cards, and even CHIP technology isn't going to stop identity theft.

 

You can fake the card but if the software is sufficiently secure, you can't fake the information in the National Database. In other words, the actual ID might look like a duck, talk like a duck, walk like a duck but it ain't a duck in the National Database.

You can fake the card but if the software is sufficiently secure, you can't fake the information in the National Database. In other words, the actual ID might look like a duck, talk like a duck, walk like a duck but it ain't a duck in the National Database.

 

If you stated this earlier, I've forgotten it and too lazy to re-read.

 

How do you see this being used on a daily basis? Just if you're pulled over? Applying for a job? Financial transactions?

You can fake the card but if the software is sufficiently secure, you can't fake the information in the National Database. In other words, the actual ID might look like a duck, talk like a duck, walk like a duck but it ain't a duck in the National Database.

 

You're working under the assumption that ANYTHING can be sufficiently secure. If there's a security measure in place, or a technology, there's someone out there working to break it, and they will.

If you stated this earlier, I've forgotten it and too lazy to re-read.

 

How do you see this being used on a daily basis? Just if you're pulled over? Applying for a job? Financial transactions?

 

If we want to be as safe as possible in America, eventually all of those.

How reliable would a national database be? This article talks briefly about the reliability of the FBI's database.

 

National database for background checks is a myth | TheHill

You're working under the assumption that ANYTHING can be sufficiently secure. If there's a security measure in place, or a technology, there's someone out there working to break it, and they will.

 

This should be on the level of National Security Secure. Probably one step below the nuke codes.

How reliable would a national database be? This article talks briefly about the reliability of the FBI's database.

 

National database for background checks is a myth | TheHill

 

Depends on who is in charge.

 

And this really isn't the same as a background check, this is a simple database just to account for everyone in America. Again, Name, DOB, Address, National ID Number. Not whether you had a mental breakdown in 1972 or got caught shoplifting at Walmart.

 

I not only have nothing to fear it would make America a much safer place.

 

Eventually in the future we will go a step further and the cards will have microchips on them that can be scanned. As long as you are carrying your NIDC you cool. If not, be prepared for armed government agents stopping you.

 

"Papers please?" Eh Heinrich?

^ Beats being all blowed up!

^ Beats being all blowed up!

 

If I have to live in a country like that, I'd just as soon take my chances.

Depends on who is in charge.

 

And this really isn't the same as a background check, this is a simple database just to account for everyone in America. Again, Name, DOB, Address, National ID Number. Not whether you had a mental breakdown in 1972 or got caught shoplifting at Walmart.

 

Don't know if I like a database , but an ID card for those who don't have a Drivers License would make some sense.