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Re: [Forwarded] RealID: How to become an unperson.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk-Willem van Gulik)
Fri Jul 8 16:16:37 2005

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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:27:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
To: hadmut@danisch.de
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20050706010705.GA8585@danisch.de>


On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 hadmut@danisch.de wrote:

> (currently in Boston, MA, after giving fingerprints at the
> airport immigration)

And you may have then noticed the interesting effect; in Germany we have
mandatory cards - carry them round always - but virtually have to show
them. And only to officials often.

In the US they have no official card - yet even the lowest clerk at the
blockbuster video asks for one...

Dw.

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