On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 09:51:15AM +1100, Jim Birch wrote: > Doesn't the idea that you can land somewhere and have your id "proven" > by a piece of paper belong in distant past? It's an absolute relic > that predates the telegraph.
yeah. i'd much rather someone poked my eyes out or chopped my fingers off if they wanted to strand me in a foreign country. no messy paper to deal with. biometrics is dangerous technofetishism. it serves no useful purpose (other than, of course, to redistribute hundreds of millions of government dollars to corporate overlords where it belongs). craig ps: the proof is not in the paper. it's in the verification procedures performed by the passport office. the australian passport office is very good at detecting identity theft/fraud. -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
