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  • verification online or over the telephone: if you want to prove your identity to someone on the telephone or over the Internet, you will be able to do this by supplying your card details and possibly some `shared secret' information, like banking services use today. Higher levels of security will be possible by using the chip on the card to generate a temporary password. Small hand-held devices to support this are cheaply available. Using one of these, the chip can provide a temporary code which confirms that your card is the one being used and that you have entered your PIN correctly; and

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Most identity fraud isn't conducted face-to-face, but over the 'phone or Internet, with no possibility of checking ID card photos. Internet Bank Smile told The Guardian in January 2003 that "When it comes to internet banking, I don't think identity cards could help".[1] The Home Office says you could "prove your identity to someone on the telephone or over the Internet ... by supplying your card details and possibly some 'shared secret' information, like banking services use today". This seems to be an open invitation to use stolen or forged ID cards for telephone-based identity fraud, and completely misrepresents how "shared secrets" work. The whole point is that the secret is shared only between you and one organisation (such as a bank), not given to every shop, hospital or government department you 'phone, from where it could be used to impersonate you.

[1] S.A. Mathieson, "A born identity", The Guardian, 30 January 2003, http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,,884668,00.html

Posted by Andrew Watson on 2007-03-06 08:22:53.
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