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Re: AGAINST ID CARDS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Sat Oct 6 16:25:23 2001
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Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 12:20:07 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
From: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>
Cc: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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Declan,
we already have a national ID card: a passport.
Knowing that some government (or forger) has attached some name to a
picture that looks like the person holding the card gives you some
information about that person, with a non-0 probability. But, is it
the information you want?
At least some of the 9/11 hijackers had passports.
- Carl
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