Re: Mandatory ID Cards

MSNBC is reporting that Congress is thinking of requiring all citizens and non-citizens in the United States to carry ID cards.

We're already half-way there. With our photo-id driver's licenses, and required identification before boarding airplanes, convenient travel and lack of anonymity go hand in hand.

It looks like the anti-privacy folks are going to do an end-run around the encryption issue, and first attack anonymity. An interesting strategy, and one which we should not let go unchallenged.

This was my thought, to which I eluded in my last post the list. I don't think crypto opponents could find ways to justify banning its use. However, an anonymity crack-down is most certainly coming. And be on the look-out for RIP-USA. -MW-