traffic woes and laws

[Rocky Mullin]

At 4:08 AM -0800 3/31/04, Kevin Boykin wrote:
>I certainly hope this doesn't transpire.  It would be
>a shame to lose that level of freedom.

	"that level of freedom" has already been lost, if you look
back fifty years.  freedom seems always to erode.

>If they would go through all the trouble to imbed
>tracking devices in our cars (whose to say they
>haven't already?)

	they have.  it's called "fastrack" around here, for toll bridges.
i use one, actually, because of the convenience.  i can yank it off the
windshield and stick it in a static-bag (like your RAM came in) and go
off the grid if i want to.

>Then we might as well move to a system like on the
>movie Minority Report....just sit back and arrive at
>your destination.

	it could turn out to be a better world.  if i could snap my fingers
and be living in star fleet, i would.

>I'm more nervous about the path of biometrics.  Taking
>fingerprints, scanning faces, scanning eyes....that's
>all fine - but what about the next step?  Imbedded
>ID's.  Who needs to track your car when we can track
>YOU?  Guess what?  It's already in the new US $20.
>Andrew has a tiny RFID chip in his right eyebrow.  Try
>and microwave it...it will burst into flames and
>Andrew's face will burn.

	really?  /the difference engine/...  fascinating.  how
utterly illuminati to have it behind his eye.

>With the march to squash terrorism, how easy it could
>be to take these steps towards ID's.  Imagine...it
>would be easy to identify everyone that is legal (and
>to be legal you had to go and get investigated, then
>imbedded).  A crowd could be scanned in seconds, warm
>bodies without the ID picked out of a crowd easily.
>You might be a terrorist if you disagree with this new
>policy...

	many people would happily trade their freedom for security,
and they of course deserve neither.



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