Security-by-credential or security-by-inspection

[georgemw at speakeasy.net]

On 8 Nov 2001, at 11:58, Greg Broiles wrote:


> It's a popular fantasy, this idea that people will faithfully report a 
> "true name" which can be matched to a database of past actions which will 
> reliably predict future behavior - but it's a failure in every way, from 
> the notion of a true, unique name, to the idea that access to dossiers can 
> be both widely available and reliable, to the idea that it's possible to 
> know what someone will do tomorrow based on knowledge of his behavior in 
> the past.
> 
Right.  To be brutally specific, identification is generally useless
for preventing suicide bombings, because suicide bombers tend not 
to be repeat offenders.

George