Damn, haven't they figured out that tatoos are cheaper and less prone to loss? Jim Choate wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:08:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Cordian <emc@artifact.psychedelic.net> Reply-To: cypherpunks@ssz.com To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com Subject: CDR: 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.

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.