-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 18:13:44 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Fwd: FINLAND MULLS PUTTING NATIONAL IDs ON CELL PHONES (from NewsScan Daily) Why does this worry me djf
From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff@iconia.com> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
FINLAND MULLS PUTTING NATIONAL IDs ON CELL PHONES The Finnish government is considering using SIMs -- the subscriber information modules inside every cell phone -- to take the place of its national identity card, and eventually even a passport. Under the plan, the computer chip embedded in every SIM would store personal information, transforming the SIM into a person's legal proof of identity. Of course the drawback would be what would happen if you lost your phone -- about 9,000 cell phones are left on the London Underground alone every year. The solution, according to Roger Needham, manager of Microsoft's British research lab, is to store the information on secure servers accessible via a WAP connection to the Web. The SIM in this case would store only a personal identifier -- an encryption key -- that the owner would have to punch in a PIN to use. The Finnish government is already taking the initiative with a national technical standard called FINEID. Currently FINEID uses a smart card and a card reader attached to a PC, but the plan is to migrate to an SIM, says Vesa Vatka of the Finnish Population Register Center in Helsinki. (New Scientist) http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/yourphoneisyou.jsp
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