In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >But nevertheless, I do not understand why americans are so afraid of >an ID card. It has by far more advantages than disadvantages, and >actually the US driving license is already a kind of ID card.
Let me refer you to a National Academies report (I was on the committee): Stephen T. Kent and Lynette Millett, ed. IDs -- Not That Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems. National Academies Press, 2002. http://books.nap.edu/html/id_questions/ Briefly, the report notes that there are a very large number of questions that need to be answered about any such system before it's even possible to discuss it intelligently. > And >whenever I enter the US, I have to give the fingerprints of my index >fingers and they take a picture of me. That's worse than an ID card. Agreed. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
