[64995] in Cypherpunks
RE: IDC_ard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca)
Mon Sep 9 09:58:42 1996
From: jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 96 09:39:54 EST
To: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
jya@pipeline.com (John Young) forwarded:
>9-8-96. NYP Mag:=20
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>"The True Terror Is In the Card."=20
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>Faced with rising crime, illegal immigration, welfare=20
>fraud and absentee parents, many bureaucrats and members=20
>of Congress insist that the nation would run more=20
>smoothly if we all had counterfeit-proof plastic=20
>identity cards.=20
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>http://jya.com/idcard.txt (11 kb)=20
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And to get all the Christian Right (no pun intended) up in arms, just sugge=
st
that the best way to prevent theft of these ID cards would be to place the
information on a microchip and implant it in your body. Forehead and right =
wrist
preferably.
James=20
