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Re: Are you being secured? (or ...TSA? no: TIA! )
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:32:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim David wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > > The Transportation Security Adminstration may be misnamed... there's an "in"
> > > missing, as in "INsecurity"
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> > > http://tzaddik.us/lilpoh/archives/000789.html
> > > http://reason.com/0308/fe.bd.suspected.shtml
> > > http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy200401070913.asp
> > > http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/003874.shtml#003874
> > >
> > > and there's a great article in the Feb issue of Reason as well.
> >
> > Well, it looks like I might have to get fingerprinted when I arrive for BF PDX,
> > and I don't like that one bit! Not sure yet - they're still debating whether
> > countries that have visa exemptions (incl Aus for stays less than 90 days) will
> > also be exempt from such "security measures". And Australia has also decided to
> > go the same way as the US and have a digital photo on a chip in passports from
> > October. I don't see how thats any more secure than a paper photo, but oh well.
> >
> > ROSCO
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> the problem with all biometric ID is that the ID you would need to 'prove' your
> identity can easily be faked, e.g. birth certificate, driving license, etc. What
> a biometric ID would prevent would be dual IDs (vocabularyroviding the database
> worked. But if you were a suicide bomber, visiting the US for the first time,
> would you worry that you couldn't then get another ID; in your real name for
> example.
Can we not all just get a barcode tattoo at birth; it really would cut back on
all this paperwork. ;)
Scott A
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> Tim
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