Smart ID cards available again!

BANGKOK: -- If you are older than 15 years old, you can apply for smart national identification cards at all district offices now.

The smart national identification cards were first launched in late 2005. However, the stock of five million smart cards soon ran out.

So far, the Provincial Administration Department now confirms that it has up to 26 million smart cards in stock.

-- The Nation 2008-05-12

The uninspiring history of Smart Cards....

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5417

New Thai Id Cards Are Not A Smart Idea

and...

The first Smart Card:

Thaksin's card

Former Information and Communications Technology Minister Surapong Suebwonglee (centre) presides over the signing ceremony for a Smart Card purchase contract worth 888 Million Baht.

Wrinkles remain in Smart Cards

The first order of Smart ID Cards delivered to the ICT Ministry should have been sent back. Instead, the ministry collaborated in glossing over major defects and accepted substandard solutions

In June 2005, the project to issue Smart ID Cards made headlines after Nectec, an agency under the National Science and Technology Development Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology, was called in to conduct a fact-finding study into the project, which lay in tatters at the time. The ICT Ministry, charged with procuring the cards, and the Ministry of Interior (MoI), who were issuing and using them, were blaming each other for technical problems that had resulted in serious delays in the IT mega project. The Nectec report found the cards sub-standard and non-compliant with the ToR on at least four key points. However, the ICT Ministry's own ten-person committee ignored the Nectec report and pronounced the cards compliant in a 5-3 vote. The four points identified by Nectec were; that the 12 million cards were not Java compliant; did not have any working PKI (public key infrastructure) encryption; did not have the required 32KB of available memory; and could not safely add or remove applets without affecting other applets. In January 2006, the MoI ran into problems issuing the card, as the card management system was indicating that some cards had already been issued. Investigation showed that the reason was that the card's unique chip ID number was being issued in pairs - meaning that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cards had an exact clone. The idea for a Smart ID Card was very much a part of the Thaksin government's style of big-buck mega projects coupled with a tangible token of popularism.

- Bangkok Post

Edited May 12, 200818 yr by sriracha john

The uninspiring history of Smart Cards....

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5417

New Thai Id Cards Are Not A Smart Idea

and...

The first Smart Card:

Thaksin's card

Former Information and Communications Technology Minister Surapong Suebwonglee (centre) presides over the signing ceremony for a Smart Card purchase contract worth 888 Million Baht.

Wrinkles remain in Smart Cards

The first order of Smart ID Cards delivered to the ICT Ministry should have been sent back. Instead, the ministry collaborated in glossing over major defects and accepted substandard solutions

In June 2005, the project to issue Smart ID Cards made headlines after Nectec, an agency under the National Science and Technology Development Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology, was called in to conduct a fact-finding study into the project, which lay in tatters at the time. The ICT Ministry, charged with procuring the cards, and the Ministry of Interior (MoI), who were issuing and using them, were blaming each other for technical problems that had resulted in serious delays in the IT mega project. The Nectec report found the cards sub-standard and non-compliant with the ToR on at least four key points. However, the ICT Ministry's own ten-person committee ignored the Nectec report and pronounced the cards compliant in a 5-3 vote. The four points identified by Nectec were; that the 12 million cards were not Java compliant; did not have any working PKI (public key infrastructure) encryption; did not have the required 32KB of available memory; and could not safely add or remove applets without affecting other applets. In January 2006, the MoI ran into problems issuing the card, as the card management system was indicating that some cards had already been issued. Investigation showed that the reason was that the card's unique chip ID number was being issued in pairs - meaning that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cards had an exact clone. The idea for a Smart ID Card was very much a part of the Thaksin government's style of big-buck mega projects coupled with a tangible token of popularism.

- Bangkok Post

If it wasn't so serious it would be funny, but then TIT.

Triple 8's. Quite auspicious.

34 baht per card .... interesting !