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

Bypass Card

[bcolflesh]

Don't Terrorize the Homeland without It!

Of course they do

[Eccles]

Don't these people learn anything from reading 'Mostly Harmless?'

Of course they did, they learned how to bilk gullible people out of money...

Quack

[MoxCamel]

"If it walks like a national ID card and quacks like a national ID card, it's a national ID card."

How naive. If it quacks like a national ID card, it's probably a duck trying to bypass security. Quick, increase to threat level fowl!

Similar Reuters Story without need to Register

[KingNaught]

Heres an artcle on the same subject at Reuters but without the need to register to view it. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=te chnologyNews&storyID=3678908&section=news

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.

ID Cards are *so* 1990s..

[SoupaFly]

Screw the ID cards, let's just skip right to microchip implants in the back of your neck. Think of all the time you could save!! You don't have to remember your ATM pin, just walk up to machine and you have access to your money. No waiting to pay at the store. It'd be great.. because no one who fits the security profile would ever turn out to be a terrorist. And of course, like all new technologies, it's sure to be infallible.

I hope we don't have to wait until 2060 for the next big counterculture movement.

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".