- As the all-powerful ID card scheme faces possible delays, would you look at that? "News" emerges that "Organised fraudsters tried to steal more than half a billion pounds from the government's tax credit system in 2005/06". So as doubts about the desirability of a government scheme touted to tackle fraud begin to become widespread and public, the government releases alarmist figures to support the need for a government scheme to tackle fraud? Well blow me - you could knock me down with a particularly fragile feather...
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2 Comments:
Half a billion? Amateurs. That's one 25th of an NHS IT system.
Just goes to show: Take the money by hacking, you're a criminal. Take it by incompetence, you're an entrepreneur.
hmm, the Register reckons it's dead in the water
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/12/idcards_getting_elbow/
hope they're right
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