[clue-talk] national ID card

[Michael Fierro]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:12:53AM -0500, erik at ezolan.com wrote:
> 
> > It's simply inevitable that should you choose to live on the grid that
> > there will be a time when a national ID will become commonplace or
> > technology will make the need for one moot.  Hopefully the government of
> > that not too distant future won't be totalitarian.
> 
> This is my idea on the matter. Technology marches on and there will be a
> unified database out there, with you in it. Either the government can
> start the process, or it will take over the process after the businesses
> build it.

You are probably right... but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't continue to
fight against such a thing happening. We may not be able to avoid the
inevitability of a unified database, but we can continue to delay it, and
make it as cost-prohibitive as possible.

As much as I like Google, I am starting to fear that they will be the biggest
threat. I wrote about that in my latest entry on my blog:

   http://apt-get.us 

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