MANHASSET, N.Y. — For the next generation of technology choices for U.S. border security, the Pogo constant applies: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Three different identification card programs under development in the United States will use three different technologies with no consistency, little long-term strategy and a virtually nonexistent regime of government coordination.
While the United States' new electronic passport deploys contactless smart card technology, the Real ID card (an enhanced driver's license) will use a 2D bar code.
