[66943] in Cypherpunks
Re: The John Doe rebellion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Kathro)
Tue Oct 1 04:28:42 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 04:05:48 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: paul.kathro@insignia.com (Paul Kathro)
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azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear) wrote:
>Eventually, Does could arrange to exchange IDs (if their ages and
>descriptions matched) and even credit cards (again assuming equivalence) to
>really monkey wrench things.
An interesting idea, but how are you going to exchange
fingerprints? As far as I can see, the only tangible effect that this
scheme would have is to accelerate the call for detailed biometric
data (perhaps retinal scans or even DNA profiles) as proof of
identity.
I'm not sure that we'd want to encourage that...
- -- Paul.
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