Here is something you may not have heard about. The new drivers licences in the state of Oregon have a digital picture on them. You get one on your licence and the state keeps on on file. Any time the police need to pull up information on you, your picture comes up along with it. (The police are supposed to have this capability in their vehicles any day now, if not already.) This plan is being put into place as fast as they can and over 70+ million over budget. (They expect to have all of the Department of Motor Vehicles offices hooked up in a couple of months.) And the "Drivers Licence Number" has been replaced with a "Customer Number". (Had to have a bit of newspeak creep in there somewhere I guess...) Oregon used to be a nice place to live. Lately they have been the experementing ground for some of the most draconian laws in the country. "Welcome to the New Global Village. You are Customer Number 6." --- | "Spam is the Devil's toothpaste!" - stuart@teleport.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan@ctrl-alt-del.com|