An anaesthetist, presumably.

Technobabble

Identity and Passport Service chief executive James Hall is quoted on the BBC today as saying that the addition of chip and pin to ID cards could "help protect internet shoppers".

How do we end up with a BBC so technically illiterate that they allow themselves to be used as a conduit for such crass, idiotic, laughable statements? Why, when this statement was made, didn't the journalist in question simply ask how, precisely, a chip and pin facility would affect internet shopping?

It fucks me off that technofear and technobabble are being used alongside fear of terrorism as weapons to push unneeded, unworkable policies through our democracy of the ignorant.