Hi! I received that today. Maybe it can interest some of you. ========== excerpt ============ I Am Not a Number! Policy Spotlight on National ID Cards -------------------------------------------------------- http://www.free-market.net/features/spotlight/9811.html While most of us weren't looking, the U.S. Congress passed two bills that effectively authorize national ID cards. One was a law to reform health insurance that included a provision for a "Unique Patient Identifier." The other was an immigration law that required all U.S. states to include Social Security numbers on drivers' licenses. [snip] ========= end of excerpt ============ Ciao jfa "Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill... yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege." _ A thinking man's Creed for Crypto/ vbm.