Reply #17: National ID is a nightmare... How do I know? UAE has been implementing it for the last 4 years

[JCMach1]

and even with a country that only has 4million people you might as well be herding cats.

Key points:

1- It's expensive (want to waste billions more setting up the infrastructure to do this?)
2- They charge! Cost is about $40 for the POS
3- It takes time to load biometrics. You thought waiting for a DL was bad, wait to see if they try a national ID.
4- No matter what you do, you will NEVER get full compliance.

Oh yeah and the last little point. Just how long do you think it will take someone to forge and/or hack one of these??? I give it about 48hr in the US.