On 19 Sep 2001, at 13:08, Eric Cordian wrote:
MSNBC is reporting that Congress is thinking of requiring all citizens and non-citizens in the United States to carry ID cards.
Interesting article... http://www.msnbc.com/news/630118.asp for those interested.
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.
From the link above:
The attacks in New York and at the Pentagon have prompted Congress to begin considering requiring all citizens and non-citizens to carry identity cards. Those might be smart cards storing data such as fingerprints and travel records. Reviewing the questions that congressional leaders were raising last Thursday, House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt told Fox News, What kind of identity cards would we make citizens and others carry? Would they carry more information?
Hmmm.... travel records, eh? And notice Gephardt acting as though it were a fait acompli. Eric's right: anonymity will be the first to go. -- Roy M. Silvernail Proprietor, scytale.com roy@scytale.com