National Identity Card

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00:12 -0700

Hello,
At 09:33 18-09-2015, Ish Sookun wrote:
>I had a chat with the person who commented. I
>told her I will respond to her questions in a blog post.

Thanks for the reply, Ish.

In a news article about the usage of biometrics
for attendance purposes [1], a "technicien en
informatique, qui a tenu à garder l'anonymat" stated that:

   "Il affirme également que pour une plus grande
sécurité, les données enregistrées
    par l'appareil doivent être cryptées. "Si les
informations sont bien sécurisées,
    il n'y a aucun risque que ces données soient piratées. Mais si cela devait
    arriver malgré tout, une empreinte ne peut
être reconstituée pour être utilisée
    ailleurs. La machine va détecter tout de suite qu'il y a un problème »,
    rassure-t-il."

Should I be reassured when I read a statement by
an anonymous person commenting about security?
:-) I would like to read the opinion of that
person about http://www.elandsys.com/~sm/incorrect-standard-cca.html

I'll comment about the topic. What happens if a
person's National Identity Card is lost or
stolen? The ID card contains personal data. It
becomes a problem for that person if that ID card
is misused by another person. How would the
person prove that he or she did not use the card for illegal purposes?

The following is the Ministry of Information and
Communication Technology's reply to an issue
raised in a report of the Director of Audit [2]:

   "The use of DSCs was compromised due to policy
decision of the change in the domain
    name from gov.mu to govmu.org."

Does that policy decision also affect the
National Identity Card? I don't know.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy


1.
http://www.defimedia.info/defi-quotidien/dq-societe/item/79534-emploi-la-pointeuse-biometrique-de-la-discorde.html
2.
http://nao.govmu.org/English/ReportsandPublications/Pages/AnnualReport-yr2014-mtius.aspx
   
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