The UK government tried, and failed, to get a national ID. Now they’re adding biometrics to their passports. According to the report: “Financing for the Passport Office is planned to rise from 182 million a year to 415 million a year by 2008 to cope with the introduction of biometric information such as fingerprints. A Home Office spokesman said the aim was to cut out the 1,500 fraudulent applications found through the postal system last year alone.”

Okay, let’s do the math. Eliminating 1,500 instances of fraud will cost 233 million a year. That comes to 155,000 per instance of fraud.

Does this kind of security trade-off make sense to anyone? Is there absolutely nothing better the UK government can do to ensure security and safety with 233 million a year?

article from: Bruce Schneier

HA!HA!HA!HA! this is just crazy, was it Camilla Parker Bowles who thought up this one.