I have a US govt. contract to develop an ultra-low-cost biometric digital ID system with strong privacy features. As I've mentioned before, my work is patent fr

I have a US govt. contract to develop an ultra-low-cost biometric digital ID system with strong privacy features. As I've mentioned before, my work is patent free, groundbreaking, and could easily spawn half a dozen companies. We'll be looking for commercial partners to take the prototype and turn it into a production system in about three months and - because we're working patent free - odds are I could help you get started on this if you're interested in being able to bid as a vendor when the time comes. Identity is a basic human necessity - if nobody knows who you are, you can't get credit, service, you can't vote - and the RFID approach has vast problems, mainly it's reliance on massive centralized databases because the cheap ID tag only holds 128 bits or whatever. We've seen a compromise of the US identity system produce both identity theft and the 50,000 or so black people who were misidentified as felons in the 2000 election in Florida, so it's not like there's not a reason (and a market) for solving these problems. Distributed systems with appropriate cryptography offer a good balance between liberty, security and privacy. That's the approach we're taking. I see this work very much as a continuation of my work on the hexayurt refugee shelter system: http://appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project/ http://appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project/ Eventual deployment platform is LiveCD-based Linux and mobile phones. hexayurt@gmail.com Odds-are that for conflict of interest reasons, I'd be able to brief you and point you in the right direction, but not be a partner or get paid on this. I'd be on the other side of the fence, on the .gov end of the deal.