Brill's Contentious ID Card

pwackerly writes "The New York Times (illegal kidney sale required) is running a story on a private venture funded by the man behind CourtTV to sell ID cards that let you bypass security, both national (airports) and private (your business's lobby). Outside of the standard national ID concerns, now we'd have to worry about a terrorist stealing our super-secret ID from our wallet. Don't these people learn anything from reading 'Mostly Harmless?'"

Comments

Opening the door

[thehickcoder]

This would open the door to other companies selling ID cards. Eventually there would be enough producers of these cards to allow disreputable produces to slip through. A few of these would be discovered thereby reducing the credability of them all. Causing the government to take over.

In short, this is just a step in the road to government issued ID cards.

This is so stupid

[K8Fan]

I fly a couple of times a month and I am always "randomly selected". Every single time. And the reason is that I fly:

1. At the last minute.
2. Paying cash.
3. One way

This is the profile. Everyone knows this is the profile. Which is why the 9/11 highjackers flew:

1. With tickets bought months before.
2. Bought on credit cards.
3. Round trip.

...and this is the really nasty bit...First Class. Even fllowing the airlines current policy, there is no way the 9/11 highjackers would be subject to extra searches currently. Because they don't fit the "highjacker profile".