[39660] in Cypherpunks
RE: FLORIDA DRIVERS PERMITS AND A HELLO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathanz@consensus.com)
Wed Sep 20 20:28:57 1995
From: jonathanz@consensus.com (Jonathanz@consensus.com)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:52:34 GMT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 17:52:34 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Jonathan Zamick <JonathanZ@consensus.com>
Subject: Re: Florida Drivers Permits and a Hello
At 4:15 PM 8/29/95, Mark wrote:
>>What possible value could the LEAs get by having your thumbprint digitally
>>encoded on your driver's license? It's not like the average cop-on-the-beat
>>is qualified to lift a fingerprint and compare it. Even if he was, how
>>does it benefit that the fingerprint is on the license?
>
>Here it is possible to walk into a suitably equipped police station, put your
>fingertips on a sensor pad and a few seconds, if records exist, have the appea
>on the computer screen. Extrapolating this it isnt a big step for a patrol
>car, already equipped with a packet radio link to HQ and a data terminal,
>scan in your fingerprint and check it. If the system was offline they could
>easily take your rpint and compare it to that on your license. It's just a
>little more proof that the license is linked to you.
>
My only question though is why help them create more records about the
average citizen?
Jonathan
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