AGAINST ID CARDS

[Carl Ellison]

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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|Carl M. Ellison         cme at acm.org     http://world.std.com/~cme |
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+--Officer, officer, arrest that man. He's whistling a dirty song.-+



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