Eric, you are right that the "it will never happen" crowd is missing reality here, but the author of this article is off a bit too when he says:
"Identity verification, though currently a large hole in our nation's security net, is easy and inexpensive to fix."
The Driver's License is destined to be a battleground, and as Phillip Windley, CIO of the state of Utah, says so well, the states don't even see themselves as in the identity business.
I'm looking forward to his discussion of this issue, in conjunction with David Temoshok, Directory of Identity Policy for GSA (who's heading the massive E-Authentication progam) at the Digital ID World Conference. We'll see how some real federal/state discussion sounds...
Posted by pbecker at September 25, 2002 10:12 AM