Bob Robinson

Hampshire, UK

IT Consultant

One useful way to promote ID cards is to work with PC makers to enable cards to be used to sign end encrypt documents to be sent by email. The government could have a website rather like Verisign's to get peoples public key.

Adding a card "chip reader" to keyboards would not be very expensive but would allow logging onto your computer with just a pin number for the card. Removing the card could then implement the locked screen saver if you wanted to. The card could just be kept for signing documents or to control your whole account and all associated transactions.
Email could be transformed and spam reduced if you could set your email only to accept signed email. All unsigned email would be relegated to the "potential spam" folder.