-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 15 Dec 95 at 13:54, Jon Lasser wrote: : I hadn't seen this cross the list yet... : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu> (410)494-3072 : Visit my home page at http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/ : You have a friend at the NSA: Big Brother is watching. Finger for PGP key. : : ---------- Forwarded message ---------- : Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 05:59:53 -0600 : From: FringeWare Daily <email@fringeware.com> : Subject: NET - HLR on highway privacy : : Sent from: hlr@well.com (Howard Rheingold) : : We Need Privacy Protection On Intelligent Highways : -- By Howard Rheingold : : Ominous steps have been taken recently, steps that perhaps move us : all closer to a global surveillance state, but few people are aware of them. : Governments around the world are installing "intelligent highways," whose : snooping capabilities ought to concern every driver. [ Much about automatic tool billing and how it can be used to track vehicles deleted.} The MTA (the people who 'run' the toll roads about Houston) have an automatic payment system in place that use transponders mounted on windshields. Most people who have these don't know it, but they have pickups for these little devices all over the freeway system, not just at the toll booths. But if you go to http://herman.tamu.edu/houston-real.html you can get an idea of what they are able to do with the data. And then they have the lobes to ask you to volunteer to put one of these things on your car. What boggles the mind, is that people do... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMNIdqjUjeCeeebC9AQG7XAf/YgxgSAhNrsEFMtjUtS4UrzTVNhEkzBK6 IQv+LMb45B/niD+fQYKmViTu8ki/jEoBZ4zLEmSLmrE8Gl0vhmSgnYCoLjVeURxo k4JEf3uYRCrGWt94hihiLl+2GahqkPdaxBdksGVR0DHAF6SIWKbwvh0LRgDiUcOT lQ6Cb9AwthPuX2BYx/1kmijABSwsEJYv2mF7J3mWwqR/3C9u92thMqfMVPIWkPfn mzgK+/OROzug2nPjIZ2ULhbJYY05mrVr0JD70kmBoThH1kqt8+1xU9v9HeziZl/y WZ8b24i3rKxLZq4PaPMsKX6TlWpIlnJt4QPTwVt4gr0sRwuY4I37sw== =GJjw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- JHupp@gensys.com |For PGP Public Key: http://gensys.com |finger jhupp@gensys.com The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.