From: Tommy the Terrorist Newsgroups: talk.rumors,alt.censorship Subject: Re: Need a 'universal identifier'? Date: 22 Jun 1997 04:32:20 GMT In article <33AB07DE.13C8@earthlink.net> Larry Allen, larecom@earthlink.net writes: >Now, Clinton wants to create a national ID card that not only would use the >SSN as a primary ID, but would encode other data about you on an >embedded chip. Once it is made mandatory to have the card in your >possession at all times we are VERY close to a police state with all the >potential of control and surveillance that exceeds that of Nazi Germany. You're omitting the majority of the evidence. Current proposals in Chicago include: 1) electronic "fare card" payment for public transportation - AND mobile electronic transmitters on the buses, ostensibly to facilitate "911 service". It appears inevitable that, since the fare cards WILL be hacked, they will "upgrade" the system at some future time to accept Clinton's National Security Health Card as the only possible payment ('you'll *ALWAYS* have your NSHC...') 2) electronic "parking meters" equipped with the same sort of technology are also in use in some Chicago suburbs. They require a "key" obtained at the town hall. 3) an article I saw nearly a year ago in the Sun-Times describes a scheme investigated in Washington, to "prevent car theft and drunk driving" by requiring driver's license identification implants IN THE VEHICLE. This, in collaboration with the parking meters, accomplishes the same for private transportation as for public. 4) the WebTV system is designed to use a "smart card", ostensibly for commerce on-line. But how soon before it's a mandatory prerequisite of any access to Internet? Well, consider Clinton's new Soviet-era legislation for mandatory "key escrow" on federally "funded" networks - which include universities now, and which could easily become just about everything if a "national initiative" is pursued to subsidize Net access to "poor" areas. One aspect of such "key escrow" being mandatory is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to receive E-mail or any other communication without the NHSC-identified, government-issued hard crypto key, and it's almost certain to be banned to send the E-mail without signing it with a similar key, and the E-mail can be scanned AT WILL by government censors in between. The role of the "smart card" is just as one extra check, to make sure that a number isn't improperly used - but the mandatory key escrow bill already makes "misuse" of the key by transfer to another a 5-year prison term (classic Leninist denomination). Likewise, public terminals - whether at university libraries or at so-called "internet cafes", all seem to be set so there is no possiblity of unidentified access. 5) Recipients of public aid are currently required to use an "Illinois LINK Card" for purchases. Ostensibly, this is solely an anti-fraud device, but it is foreseeable that it is already used for surveillance, and could be used for mandating the nutritional and other characteristics of the purchases. Two major Chicago supermarkets offer heavy discounts for use of a "preferred customer" card that accomplishes surveillance as well. Remember, what you purchase, the combination of brand choice for toilet paper and shampoo and breakfast cereal, gives enough bits of information to act just like a fingerprint - and it's all collected by the National Consumer Information Center, a company whose computers were set up by the SAIC, a known "spook outfit" which also owns the central internet DNS registry. We've seen a precedent with the tobacco suits that customers of products can be subjected to identification and arbitrary regulation. Now that tobacco is over, those lawyers will be looking at vodka - ice cream - over the counter drugs - anything else. How long before they prohibit ANY anonymous financial transaction, however small? (and while we're on the topic, how about the little food vendors with their carts, whom the city seeks to outlaw despite overwhelming public opinion to the contrary, for no apparent reason? I think they DO plan ahead.) I believe there are things I'm missing here - I think I've forgotten some items. The New World Order is something vicious and very real - and it must be stopped before the government has the opportunity to ABUSE all the power it's collecting. --------------5C4174263BE6--