making anonymity illegal

[geer at world.std.com]

"Will A. Rodger" <WRodger at ccianet.org> writes:

> That would be a wise move. That would continue for about three weeks, and
> then we'd see a bill out of Congress demanding that ISPs retain identity 
> for, oh, maybe seven years?

The population can be rather easily bought to do this, coercion
won't hardly be required.  Perhaps an example?

NJ Turnpike:  You get a discount for using "EZ Pass"[1] and
there are, of course, records involved[2].  Since there are
generally credit card accounts to which the Passes are billed,
the 90 day limit for credit card dispute might seem to be a
sufficient time to keep said records as the payment for road
use can be fairly said to be complete at 91 days.  Well, no;
those records are kept for seven years.  As the EZ Pass system
is just exactly the same system as is in place in Massachusetts
but under the name "Fast Lane," one should probably assume records
are simply kept in a uniform fashion := max(applicable state regs).
Of course, the credit card companies are already in very highly
regulated record retention regimes in any case.

Tried renting a car without a credit card?

--dan




[1] http://www.state.nj.us/turnpike/tr2003.htm
[2] http://lis.njleg.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=103773&Depth=2&TD=WRAP&advquery=turnpike%20toll&depth=4&expandheadings=on&headingswithhits=on&hitsperheading=on&infobase=statutes.nfo&rank=&record={AB92}&softpage=Doc_Frame_PG42&wordsaroundhits=2&zz=


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