USA To Require Govt Issued ID To Use Internet, No More Anonymous

[Greg Moss]

I think its a great idea All in the protection of America people.
On Jan 22, 2016 8:28 PM, <dan at geer.org> wrote:

>  | A senior Homeland Security official recently argued that Internet
>  | anonymity should outlawed in the same way that driving a car without a
>  | license plate is against the law. "When a person drives a car on a
>  | highway, he or she agrees to display a license plate," Erik Barnett,
>  | an assistant deputy director at U.S. Immigration and Customs
>  | Enforcement and attache to the European Union at the Department of
>  | Homeland Security, wrote. "The license plate's identifiers are ignored
>  | most of the time by law enforcement. Law enforcement will use the
>  | identifiers, though, to determine the driver's identity if the car is
>  | involved in a legal infraction or otherwise becomes a matter of public
>  | interest. Similarly, should not every individual be required to
>  | display a 'license plate' on the digital super-highway?"
>
> In a world of circulating *private sector* plate readers and cameras
> fed to databases where it is dollars, not writs, that open the door,
> the analogy above is bullshit.  As they say in the law, falsus in uno,
> falsus in omnibus.
>
> --dan
>
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