>> > I say it one more time: The smart ID card is dead and gone. >> > It is beyond repair.
>Dr Russel Winder wrote: >If the smart ID card is dead and gone why are so many governments >putting large projects together to make such cards a reality. What >makes you say it is dead and gone? I hope you don't mind some "evangelizing"? REACHING CRITICAL MASS There are many hurdles. Some will not even governments be able to climb. A major one is that on-line banks are toiling with their own schemes and only occasionally accept government smart cards. This greatly reduces the value of government cards. This happened in Sweden and the Swedish Post Office subsequently shelved the whole thing after suffering from heavy losses. Mobile phones have already reached critical mass since at least 5 years back and are replaced at a high frequency soon making such devices prime candidates for housing "virtual cards" allowing both governments and banks to co-exist. THE PLAYERS In one corner you have big, but slow players like governments and banks, often caught in endless political fights, while in the other corner you have consumer-oriented vendors like Intel, Microsoft and Samsung. This is certainly not fair play but I don't make the rules. Anders R _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
