Roger Huffadine

Worcester

CTO

Not good enough - - "as close to foolproof as possible"

The system is, today, "as close to foolproof as possible" and it is unreliable.
I always loved it when a customer asked for a Mean Time Between Failure figure without specifying a measurement period, because at the limit of infinity I can always meet the figure.

This Political speak only means that the government can go ahead NOW because the system meets the stated criteria.

Much better if Tony Blair were to say "The ID card system will not be implemented until we achieve a hit rate of 99.998% with no false positives across a random sample of 100,000 UK residents."
Now that would get my attention :)