UK ID card cloned in 12 minutes

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It's not often I want to say thanks to the Daily Mail, but I was pleased to read their story yesterday about how they managed to clone a UK ID card in 12 minutes and reprogram it to change the details of the holder - including their identity, entitlement to benefits, and 'terrorist status'.

As I watch, Laurie picks up a mobile phone and, using just the handset and a laptop computer, electronically copies the ID card microchip and all its information in a matter of minutes.

He then creates a cloned card, and with a little help from another technology expert, he changes all the information the card contains - the physical details of the bearer, name, fingerprints and so on. And he doesn't stop there.

With a few more keystrokes on his computer, Laurie changes the cloned card so that whereas the original card holder was not entitled to benefits, the cloned chip now reads 'Entitled to benefits'.

As a chilling twist, he adds a message that would be visible to any police officer or security official who scanned the card: 'I am a terrorist - shoot on sight.'

Anybody who thinks these cards are going to do anything other than give the Government an excuse to build a huge database holding the details of everybody out there (well, everybody who's not a terrorist anyway) would do well to think again in the light of this evidence. Criminals will copy and change these cards as they wish, creating many new 'proven' (and therefore trusted) identities to commit their crimes as - maybe one of those identities will be yours?

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Re: UK ID card cloned in 12 minutes
Posted by WinstonSmith (216.26.xx.xx) on Wed 12 Aug 2009 at 21:59 [ Send Message ]
I totally agree with you. To your comments I would only add that the government also gets to help line the pockets of it's wealthy supporters by passing along all the lucrative contracts to waste taxpayer dollars on the creation of these cards as well.
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Re: UK ID card cloned in 12 minutes
Posted by FBU-FWO (87.194.xx.xx) on Sat 26 Sep 2009 at 22:12 [ Send Message ]
The Surveillance state will ultimately fail. It is just a matter of time. This does not mean we can stand by and allow the state to do as they want against us. We must preserve the right to free speech, and all liberties before we turn into a Nazi or Communist like police state which is high tech orientated. Even though the state does not have the resources or personnel to handle all data collected profile building will continue for all cicitizens, whether legal or illegal. The governments of the world seek to control all people from cradle to grave. We must fight these tyrants and take the EU out ofthe UK, their charities, organisations, institutions, think tanks, political elite. Once the EU Lisbon treaty is ratified we will be owned by and ruled by a foreign power which is unconstitutional and treason.

The EU membership the UK has is illegal under UK law. We could bring back capital punishment (only for high treason) and hold the ones accountable for their crimes of high treason once we have a referendum, but in fact we need not have one at all because our UK law states that we shall not be ruled by any foreign power. To allow or aid this to is a conspiracy and high treason, this is Crown (Corporate) Law of the UK, which governs all of the UK. It does not matter that Tony Blair made a law (that was signed by HRH) to make them unaccountable for crimes of high treason because that law is void as if it never existed (which it did not because it violates our law) just as all EU rules that the UK now abides by at the rate of 88% of all laws/rules. Please people, learn the facts via thorough research before we willingly become true slaves. Tens of millions of people have died during the world wars, don't let their sacrifices be in vain.

What we need now is an organised united effort from as many peaceful freedom loving civilians as possible, but the support of police and military is also favourable to us all. They are our brothers, sisters, and family. If you wish to contact me for any government documents and educational material on the law then do so. I am looking for founding fathers for activist and legal action networks, any solicitors are welcome, particularly ones that would like to specialize in the field of constitutional and sovereign law. I also have factual documents from EU sources of the early days. I can present you with the very facts surrounding how the EU came to reality and the original UK viewpoint at that time. Winston Churchill never wanted us to be a part of, but unfortunately a vast majority of people since then have been misguided by a very small number of people regarding this fact, as I say please do some serious thorough research.

I can help you along your way if necessary. We do not want our police to be replaced by Europol and Interpol as the EU proposes in its documents and rules. We do not want our military (including Trident nuclear arsenal) to be made up and controlled by German and French, we do not want our courts to be run by the mainland Europe. We do not want our education system dictated to by the EU, we do not want Parliament to close when the EU Constitution replaces our sovereign constitution, we do not want a one party one government system that will be law by then, when only political parties that are permitted to exist are ones that are in 10 or more countries, we do not want it to be made illegal to not politically support the EU, we want to be FREE.
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