On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:22:20PM -0500, Gary Nunn wrote: > A national ID card sounds like a good idea in theory, but the > technology is nowhere near reliable enough to make this a reliable > system.
Not true. The technology for a distributed, redundant, fault-tolerant system defintely exists. Look at, for example, the Internet domain name server (DNS) system. Or google.com. The problem is whether people are willing to spend the time and resources necessary to design, set up, and maintain such a system. Evidently in the system you described, they were not. (Two days to come up with the "short term" solution of disabling the security? Obviously no one had gone through and anticipated various scenarios and formulated plans of action, let alone having designed the system robustly in the first place). -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
