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Jaan Jänesmäe wrote: > Hey, > > I'm a proud owner of a ID Card (Estonian ID card to be exact). Anyway, > I've been reading a lot lately about government not going opensource > and so on and so on. I've been using my ID Card quite often for > e-banking, digital signing, other e-services and also e-government > services. Ok, none of these services are in the UK but still. > > Last night i stumbled over OpenID project on The Register ( > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/19/yahoo_openid/ ) and got a > seemingly stupid idea. Why not get our own developers together and > start a co-project like OpenIDCard or something. I personally like the > idea of having a changeable pin code for my card and the possibility > to login to any service (libraries, e-gov, yahoo and other thousands > of sites) with the same card. This could make the life at least so > much easier, that I could bin my 3 different library cards and lots of > other membership cards. And the best thing would be that you also have > a username and password in case you loose or forget your card. > > Any ideas? > Yup, I saw that a while ago and thought the same thing.. I have been following the debate about ID cards for a while now and I'm still undecided. I would be happy if no one single entity had all of my details, but I can see the advantage of it (providing it's not the government, they lost our details on the whole missing CD thing a while ago). -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html