Scan away...I have nothing to hide.....Its all around us...and is probably pointless to worry about. Yes...The new passports are scannable...and many countries that require VISAs are making those scannable as well....On a recent trip to Brazil....My VISA and passport was scanned in Brazil and was surprised that they just implemented that technology....and my passport was scanned coming back into the US.... And I was scanned on a trip to Europe before that....so it is not just the US heading this way...... And my drivers liscense was scanned when I was recently stopped for speeding. The county officer had a handheld wireless scanner...and a printer on his belt...just like they use in the Apple store....there was one guy stopping speeders such as me...and one guy in the police car checking people out on the computer. And my bank has been using the thumbprint authorization for a few years..... I suspect this is just part of the world now...and although I am concerned about privacy...it is hard to take that very seriously...since I do use facebook...and subscribe to several e-lists such as this..... There are bigger problems in the world than this.
--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Linda Palit <lkpa...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: From: Linda Palit <lkpa...@sbcglobal.net> Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Big Brother To: "'Mixon Bill'" <bmixon...@austin.rr.com>, "'Cavers Texas'" <texascavers@texascavers.com> List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 12:18 PM Microwave disables the strip? Or was it the freezer? Passports have them too, at least the new ones do. -----Original Message----- From: Mixon Bill [mailto:bmixon...@austin.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:07 PM To: Cavers Texas Subject: [Texascavers] Big Brother Nobody has mentioned that we've had to give a thumbprint to get a Texas driver's licence for at least ten years now. What the hell does a thumbprint have to do with a driver's license, you may well ask. Well, my understanding it that it was a federal mandate having something to do with tracking down deadbeat dads who haven't been paying child support. The magnetic strip on my current driver's license probably won't work, because I've made a point of trying to erase it, without any way to tell for sure that I have. Not that it can be read remotely, but if anybody ever wants to scan it, I probably won't be in a very cooperative mood. Nobody ever scanned the last one I had. Of course, with the new driver's licenses we're supposed to be getting soon, there will be a lot more irrelevant stuff on them. Probably there will be some easy trick to disable the RFI chip in the new licenses--something more subtle than drilling a hole through it. Of course, the more paranoid among us will never, ever use a tollway pass....-- Mixon ---------------------------------------- A fearless man cannot be brave. ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
