Larry Ellison volunteers to donate the S/W for Nat. ID Cards

[Bill Stewart]

Was that Saturday's paper, or Sunday's?  What page?  It's not in the on-line.

Anybody want to start boycott-oracle.org?  :-)

At 10:45 AM 09/23/2001 -0700, citizenQ wrote:
>In the SJ Mercury News this morning: Ellison, (who doesn't think that laws 
>pertaining to other people pertain to him, evidenced by his refusal to 
>obey flight curfew laws regulating takeoffs and landings at SJ Airport) 
>volunteers to donate all the Oracle-ware necessary to deploy National ID 
>cards.  For this act of patriotism he naturally gets lots of column inches 
>of aggrandizement.
>
>He is quoted in the article as suggesting a card that stores your 
>fingerprint, allowing authentication by a fingreprint reader.
>
>"'We're quite willing to provide the software for this absolutely free.'"
>
>"But Ellison said in the electronic age little privacy is left anyway" ...
>
>" 'This privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion,' he said. 
>'All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy.'"
>
>"Howard Gantman, a spokesman for Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif, said that 
>she would be interested in discussing the idea with Ellison."
>
>Fuckwits.  I'm concerned the possibility of Nat ID cards is a more 
>virulent threat than wiretapping and crypto restrictions.
>
>"May I see your papers please?"