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Re: [Forwarded] RealID: How to become an unperson.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Jul 8 15:40:09 2005
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: hadmut@danisch.de
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:07:05 EDT."
<20050706010705.GA8585@danisch.de>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:26:54 -0400
In message <20050706010705.GA8585@danisch.de>, hadmut@danisch.de writes:
>
>But nevertheless, I do not understand why americans are so afraid of
>an ID card. It has by far more advantages than disadvantages, and
>actually the US driving license is already a kind of ID card.
Let me refer you to a National Academies report (I was on the
committee): Stephen T. Kent and Lynette Millett, ed. IDs -- Not That
Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems. National Academies
Press, 2002. http://books.nap.edu/html/id_questions/ Briefly, the
report notes that there are a very large number of questions that need
to be answered about any such system before it's even possible to
discuss it intelligently.
> And
>whenever I enter the US, I have to give the fingerprints of my index
>fingers and they take a picture of me. That's worse than an ID card.
Agreed.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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