DOD goes to Smart Card ID's

[jenkins at fox.nstn.ca]

The Marine Corps tried this a couple of years ago -
cards did not work under "field conditions" worth a darn
- found they were , shall we say "sensitive to heat"-
now if asbestos wasnt so "difficult" to wotk with -
 we might have a solution here.

Gord Jenkins
jenkins at fox.nstn.ca

> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011026/pl/tech_smartcards_military_dc_1.html
> 
> ....
> 
> "The U.S. defense department has ordered chip-based ID cards for 4.3 
> million military
>   personnel over the next 18 months to tighten security on access to 
> buildings, including the
>   Pentagon (news - web sites), and to computer networks, including 
> access to encrypted
>   e-mail and online transactions."
> 
> ....
> 
> ``This is extremely important, not only to us, but to the whole smart 
> card industry. It's the
>   biggest Java-based smart card order yet,'' ActivCard Senior Vice 
> President Tom Arthur told
>   Reuters at annual chip card congress Cartes 2001.'
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