How secure is a high-tech ID card?
This depends widely on the specifics of the system, but no system can ever be 100% secure. While smart cards are among the most secure technologies available, virtually all existing smart card systems have been compromised. Leading security experts point out that as more and more smart cards are put into operation, more and more people know how to break them. If the card is used to check the information against a central database, then the security of this database becomes crucial. It must be accessible nationwide in order to support security checkpoints all over the country. Therefore it will have to be on some network, probably the Internet or telephone system. The security necessary to prevent people from breaking into such a sensitive networked system would be nearly impossible to achieve. For this reason, a NIDS creates security risks that would otherwise not exist. Furthermore, if high-tech security cards can be compromised, it becomes impossible to distinguish a fake card from a
