The new military ID cards are ‘Smart Cards’ as you may have seen. They have a little chip and it contains all your information. Certainly enough to account for identity theft…
I have an ActivCard reader on my desk and after I type in my pin number I can access all the information on the card. So if I lose this thing, and someone finds it how hard would it be for them to get the data off of it? :dubious:
This is right out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In the last book of the series, “Mostly Harmless,” he mentioned Ident-I-Eeze cards, which high ranking executives carried because they could not be bothered with remembering all of their passwords which they needed to get along in their busy lives. I am going out on a limb here, but I imagine that the military’s smart ID cards are just as effective as the ones that Douglas Adams mentioned. IE - If the bad guys get your card, then they can do anything they want with your accounts and/or securities until you get a new card issued to you.