U.K. official: Fight online fraud with iPods
A senior manager at a British government agency has come up with an alternative to the U.K.’s identity card scheme: Give everyone a free iPod installed with a digital certificate. Patrick Cooper, the head of applications and data services in the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry, floated the idea–albeit with tongue firmly in cheek–at an event on Tuesday, hosted by Adobe Systems, to discuss technology predictions for 2006. Full Story