Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Advocacy
I know, I know. I said little to no advocacy on these pages. This is a rule with very few exceptions. I am about to make 2. The second of these is Oracle related, but I'll be contacting a few folk at Oracle Corp first to make sure that I express myself fairly.
The second is UK related, and thanks to Shrek for bringing the site to my attention. if, like me you regard the National ID Card proposals as a gross invasion of privacy, asking for trouble (your database has no data quality errors right?), and a huge waste of time, effort and resources. (2000 house moves per day on latest figures all of which need to be accurately captured, entered and verified) then pay a visit to the no2id site (yes its in txt msg spk, you can't have everything) and sign the petition.
If you think that technology will solve security issues, then look at just a couple of precedents.
ID cards - available in both major targets of al-qaeda (NYC and Madrid)
CCTV - that's why city centres are safer than ten years ago.
Technological progress is a good thing, blind faith and abandoning it to governments and vested interests (who is bidding for the contract, it won't be a UK company there isn't one that can supply the technology) isn't.
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The second is UK related, and thanks to Shrek for bringing the site to my attention. if, like me you regard the National ID Card proposals as a gross invasion of privacy, asking for trouble (your database has no data quality errors right?), and a huge waste of time, effort and resources. (2000 house moves per day on latest figures all of which need to be accurately captured, entered and verified) then pay a visit to the no2id site (yes its in txt msg spk, you can't have everything) and sign the petition.
If you think that technology will solve security issues, then look at just a couple of precedents.
ID cards - available in both major targets of al-qaeda (NYC and Madrid)
CCTV - that's why city centres are safer than ten years ago.
Technological progress is a good thing, blind faith and abandoning it to governments and vested interests (who is bidding for the contract, it won't be a UK company there isn't one that can supply the technology) isn't.
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Niall - you have two second points but no first... (gosh, I can be so petty)
For a while I worked for 'certain specialised agencies' here in the UK at that time a national ID scheme was neither here nor there - it would only help Mr Plod pull the usual suspects.
For a while I worked for 'certain specialised agencies' here in the UK at that time a national ID scheme was neither here nor there - it would only help Mr Plod pull the usual suspects.
Indeed, I have only posted the second point and not the first, I think a careful reading of what I wrote will show that I have the same second point twice and have not yet made the first, I can't understand why there could possibly be any confusion!
The first shall be last and all that.
The first shall be last and all that.
I must be a very careless reader... it still looks like
[quote]
The second of these is Oracle related, but I'll be contacting a few folk at Oracle Corp first to make sure that I express myself fairly.
The second is UK related, a.... [/quote]
to me
[quote]
The second of these is Oracle related, but I'll be contacting a few folk at Oracle Corp first to make sure that I express myself fairly.
The second is UK related, a.... [/quote]
to me
If ID cards and a central database were implemented correctly then they could be really useful. Imagine never having to fill in name, address and DOB details on official forms again, as all the data can already be shared between departments.
In reality, Larry Ellison will donate a free beta copy of Oracle 11x Database running in screwup mode and we will all spend the rest of our lives filling in forms to update the value of our "suspected_terrorist VARCHAR2(1) NOT NULL" column to 'N'.
Cheers
Tim...
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In reality, Larry Ellison will donate a free beta copy of Oracle 11x Database running in screwup mode and we will all spend the rest of our lives filling in forms to update the value of our "suspected_terrorist VARCHAR2(1) NOT NULL" column to 'N'.
Cheers
Tim...
