Hi Bernie, Firstly, welcome to the Netbehaviour list...
I hope that you will find it fruitful & of interest and stimulation. >If there's some place to learn more about this list, I'd be interested. Did you find the networked art list by the way? marc > Hi all, I'm new on this list. I had read Marc's > interview with Verschooren and looked up a list for > network art. If there's some place to learn more > about this list, I'd be interested. > > In the meantime, I'd like to toss of a comment about > the article forwarded here. Since the early 19th > century some form of the id card has been in the > making and will continue to preoccupy diverse segments > of society. Photography quickly became a means of > collecting visual data and assessing various risk > populations. It is only to be expected that digital > means replace mechanical ones. Security has also long > been an easy means of persuading people to submit to a > disciplining regimen and to acquiesce in the > collection of data about minority groups. What we > need to think about are the ways in which individuals > manage to subvert or evade this process. > > Bernie > > > > --- marc garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> Bruce Schneier: Security at What Cost? >> >> National ID System Is Not Worth The $23 Billion >> Price Tag. >> >> he argument was so obvious it hardly needed >> repeating: We would all be >> safer if we had a better ID card. A good, >> hard-to-forge national ID is a >> no-brainer (or so the argument goes), and it's >> ridiculous that a modern >> country such as the United States doesn't have one. >> One result of this >> line of thinking is the planned Real ID Act, which >> forces all states to >> conform to common and more stringent rules for >> issuing driver's licenses. >> >> But security is always a tradeoff; it must be >> balanced with the cost. We >> all do this intuitively. Few of us walk around >> wearing bulletproof >> vests. It's not because they're ineffective, it's >> because for most of >> us, the tradeoff isn't worth it. It's not worth the >> cost, the >> inconvenience, or the loss of fashion sense. >> >> According to the Department of Homeland Security's >> own estimates, Real >> ID will cost Americans around $23 billion. So is >> this a good tradeoff >> for us -- are the security benefits worth the price >> tag? >> >> When most people think of ID cards, they think of a >> small plastic card >> with their name and photograph. This isn't wrong, >> but it's only a small >> piece of any ID program. What starts out as a >> seemingly simple security >> device -- a card that binds a photograph with a name >> -- rapidly becomes >> a complex security system. >> >> http://www.schneier.com/essay-207.html >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
